Oregon Chapter Blog

Carrying crude oil extracted from the tar sands in Canada, hundreds of rail cars travel through several U.S. states, along the Columbia River Gorge, through densely populated urban areas en-route to the Portland rail yard. Zenith Energy, a Houston-...

We have just passed the halfway point of the 2019 legislative session, and this past Tuesday, April 9, marked the first real legislative deadline: bills that have not made it out of their committee of origin by that date are dead for the session....

The Oregon Chapter of the Sierra Club recently completed an assessment of our organizational conservation priorities for 2019. We had 31 conversations with those partners and volunteer leaders around the state to help us shape our 2019 priority...

It’s hard to believe, but we’re already about nine weeks into the 2019 Oregon legislative session. The Oregon Sierra Club is tracking some 90 bills introduced this session, and in some cases actually moving them in the direction that we prefer! We...

When did you start gaining awareness about environmental issues? When did you start to understand that climate change is a real threat happening right now? For Carrington Fasteln, senior at Bend High School, this came last October during her...

We are now about six weeks into the 2019 Oregon Legislature, and we’re watching and actively working on dozens of bills in state legislature already. Of course, for almost every progressive bill we’re fighting to pass, there is another bill waiting...

Immediately upon entering the City Hall council chambers, it was different - different from any public hearing in Salem, different from the quiet chambers of the State Senate and House, different from the suits and high heels tapping against the...

On Feb. 27, Sierra Club hosted an Action Night to stand up against oil trains. Ryan Riffenhouse, from Friends of the Columbia Gorge, spoke in detail about the 2016 oil train tragedy in small town Mosier, OR and how oil companies continue to endanger...

Are you looking for hands-on experience with the behind-the-scenes work of running a major non-profit? Are you computer savvy? Do you want to join the team of Oregon’s largest grassroots environmental organization? If so, the Oregon Sierra Club...

On January 22, the first day of the 2019 Legislative Session, Rhett Lawrence (the Oregon Sierra Club's Conservation Director) submitted a letter to Senate President Peter Courtney, Speaker of the House Tina Kotek, Senator Michael Dembrow,...