Coos Bay firm wins $8M federal contract
The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded a local technology firm an $8 million bid for tech support services. The Native American Technology Corp., headquartered in Coos Bay, was one of 10 companies in the nation whose bid was selected fo...
 1.7K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 333.0 USFS backs new Wilderness area near Reedsport
GRANTS PASS The U.S. Forest Service has endorsed designation of a new wilderness area near Reedsport. It s in an area of the Coast Range known for a remote waterfall called the Devil s Staircase. The agency s deputy chief, Joel Haltrop, appeared Th...
2.2K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 271.0 City might have legal right to cut sewer service
The Coquille Tribe doesn t think the city can do it. But a representative of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality says the city of North Bend, in its lawsuit against the tribe, just might be able to legally shut off sewer services to The Mi...
4.3K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 347.0 EPA limits 3 pesticides to protect salmon
SEATTLE (AP) The Environmental Protection Agency revealed new limits Friday on three pesticides commonly used on western farms to protect endangered and threatened Pacific salmon. The rules announced Friday apply to the use of chlorpyrifos, diazino...
3.1K - Sep. 12, 2009; scored 279.0 Agency: Ammonia leak results in $90,000 settlement
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Federal officials say an Australian company has agreed to a $90,000 settlement for failing promptly to report the release of ammonia from its Columbia County plant. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says Dyno Nob...
0.9K - Sep. 9, 2009; scored 242.0 Study: Sea turtles could go extinct
Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON It s a scene that scientists say is all too common: A commercial fishing boat pulls in a net full of shrimp or tuna and finds a loggerhead sea turtle mixed in with the catch. Biologists like Matthew Godfrey say on...
5.5K - Sep. 3, 2009; scored 330.0 Reliance on locally made biodiesel increases
PORTLAND Pulling up to the pump in a diesel car or rig? In Oregon from now on, a small portion of the fill-up will be soybean squeezings or recycled cooking grease. Biodiesel production has reached a level in Oregon that triggered a mandate from th...
4.5K - Aug. 10, 2009; scored 220.0 Pollution case results in indictment
PORTLAND Federal officials have indicted one of the largest manufacturers of formaldehyde in the nation and a North Bend man on charges of dumping hazardous waste in a volcanic cinder cone in Oregon. Dennis Beetham and his company, D.B. Western Inc...
2.7K - Aug. 7, 2009; scored 307.0 Agency seeks input on Bandon ocean rocks
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to hear from the public about its proposed conservation plan to manage the rocks offshore from Bandon over the next 15 years. The agency has released its Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan for the Oregon Is...
2.6K - Jul. 14, 2009; scored 285.0 Judge overturns Bush logging rule
GRANTS PASS - A federal judge has struck down the Bush administration's change to a rule designed to protect the northern spotted owl from logging in national forests. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken ruled from Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday that the...
2.8K - Jul. 1, 2009; scored 395.0 Study faults federal wildfire effort
GRANTS PASS - While more than 1,000 homes across the West burn each year in forest and brush fires, only a fraction of federal efforts to reduce fire danger in the region has been concentrated in the communities at greatest risk, a group of scientist...
4.9K - Jun. 9, 2009; scored 271.0 A pile of permits
Jordan Cove Energy Project's proposed liquefied natural gas terminal and connecting pipeline projects are far from done deals. Many agencies are reviewing permits. Some still are weighing comments from the public. Here's a list of agencies. Federal a...
2.7K - Jun. 6, 2009; scored 415.0 Sea turtles protected since 2001
The National Marine Fisheries Service said a petition by three environmental groups to establish critical habitat for leatherback sea turtles puts additional focus on fisheries that already try to protect turtles. NMFS has had protections in place fo...
4.2K - Jun. 1, 2009; scored 322.0 Cities push for stimulus funds to pay for sewer work
CARBON HILL, Ill. - Sewage from toilets flows in open ditches here, spilling into back yards and even onto the lone baseball diamond where children play after school. The nose-wrinkling stench carries throughout this century-old, one-diner village o...
5.1K - May. 4, 2009; scored 347.0 Company owes fine over woman's death
EUGENE (AP) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined a Eugene extermination company $4,550 for illegally applying pesticides in the home of a Florence woman. She died from cardiac arrest. Swanson's Pest Management fumigated an el...
1.0K - May. 1, 2009; scored 296.0 Unhealthy air pollution levels in the U.S.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sixty percent of Americans live in areas with unhealthy air pollution levels, despite a growing green movement and more stringent laws aimed at improving air quality, the American Lung Association said in a report released today. T...
0.8K - Apr. 29, 2009; scored 248.0 Landfill will be boat's final port of call
Port officials expect to get state approval this week to pull a sunken boat out of Isthmus Slough. The 72-foot vessel, the Mid Watch, has spent the past two months underwater after it sank in the shipping channel near Millington. State and federal of...
3.9K - Apr. 23, 2009; scored 220.0 Obama in Iowa for Earth Day
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is going on the road to pitch his energy plan - as well as environmentally friendly jobs production - in a hard-hit Iowa town, while administration officials make a similar push back in Washington. The White H...
3.9K - Apr. 22, 2009; scored 271.0 EPA summit aims to stop the bedbugs' bite
WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government is waking up to what has become a growing nightmare in many parts of the country - a bedbug outbreak. The tiny reddish-brown insects, last seen in great numbers prior to World War II, are on the rebound. They ...
3.6K - Apr. 14, 2009; scored 194.0 Clean water expert targets farm runoff in Gulf of Mexico
MOBILE, Ala. - A clean water expert at Auburn University hopes a new project that enlists middle and high school students will help reduce farm runoff that is a growing pollution threat to the Gulf of Mexico. Bill Deutsch said colleagues in Veracruz,...
5.5K - Apr. 10, 2009; scored 333.0 | 
