Energy and Environment
Information regarding my stance on Energy and Environment issues.
On National Dam Safety Awareness Day, Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) toured Scoggins Dam and received an update about federally-funded safety and storage improvements to the dam currently being studied by Clean Water Services and the Bureau of Reclamation. Scoggins Dam is one of the most seismically vulnerable facilities in the Bureau's inventory.
Workforce issues continue to plague the commercial fishing world, industry leaders told attendees during the second annual Clatsop Commercial Fisheries Tour Wednesday.
The tour highlighted successful businesses in Warrenton and Astoria, improved marina infrastructure in Warrenton, as well as conservation efforts within the industry.
But Andrew Bornstein of Bornstein Seafoods said the company has struggled to fill out its employee roster — an issue that is inextricably tied to the lack of affordable and workforce-priced housing in Clatsop County, he said.
The Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association (ORLA) invites all Oregonians to join it in celebrating National Park Week, which runs through Sunday, April 29.
The week was designed to celebrate the important role played by national parks in our state and country.
Beaverton will receive $400,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to clean up brownfields on the site of the city's future Public Safety Center.
The cleanup of the Shell gasoline station at the southwest corner of Allen and Hall boulevards — a station still in operation — is one of the remaining tasks before the city can demolish the former Beaverton Activities Center. The money also will pay for cleanup of a diesel spill that occurred on adjoining property in 2006.
Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced funding for critical priorities for Oregon's coastal communities in the 2018 spending bill released yesterday.
"I fought to make this bill really deliver for Oregon's coastal communities, and it does," Merkley said. "This funding supports core programs, from small ports, to marine research, to coastal salmon recovery."