WASHINGTON, May 27 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Merkley Leads Resolution Calling for a National Strategy to Defend Biodiversity Washington, D.C. - As climate chaos intensifies, threatening more than one million species and creating an unprecedented biodiversity crisis, Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley reintroduced a resolution in the Senate to establish a National Biodiversity Strategy. "The impacts of climate chaos are only becoming deadlier an more PR

SALEM, Oregon, May 28 -- The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality issued the following news release on May 27, 2025: * * * DEQ issues three penalties in April for environmental violations The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality issued three penalties totaling $19,208 in April for various environmental violations. A detailed list of violations and resulting penalties is at https://ordeq.org/enforcement. Fines ranged from $4,200 to $8,633. Alleged violations included a wastewater  more PR

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek is urging federal agencies to withdraw a proposed rule change that would alter the definition of "harm" within the Endangered Species Act, warning of severe negative economic and environmental consequences for the state. In a letter dated May 15, 2025, to Secretaries Doug Burgum and Howard Lutnick, Governor Kotek expressed strong opposition to the proposal by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Department of Comm more ST

WASHINGTON, May 27 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Wyden, Smith Celebrate The "Kids to Parks Day" Resolution Passing in the Senate Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., today celebrated passage of their bipartisan resolution in the Senate that encourages children to get outdoors and promote healthy outdoor recreation by designating May 17, 2025, National Kids to Parks Day. Kids to Parks Day is a national day more PR