Covering Your Climate: A Source Toolbox for Climate Change Reporting in the Emerald Corridor
As part of the “Covering Your Climate: The Emerald Corridor” special report, we’ve collected a wide range of resources to help reporters track down climate stories throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Oregon is working to strengthen coast highways facing bluff erosion. Above, a washout north of Newport on the Oregon Coast Highway in 2013.
As part of our special report “Covering Your Climate: The Emerald Corridor,” a joint project between InvestigateWest and the Society of Environmental Journalists’ SEJournal, we’ve collected a wide range of resources to help reporters track down climate stories throughout the Pacific Northwest. You’ll find an array of government, academic and nongovernmental organization links for Oregon, including Portland; Washington, including Seattle; and British Columbia, including Vancouver, as well as from regional, national and international resources.
Oregon climate resources
Workers install the last panel in the Baldock Solar Station, a 1.75 megawatt solar array on I-5, 14 miles south of Portland, Oregon. The station generates 12 percent of Oregon's Department of Transportation electricity, helping ti achieve its goal of only using renewable energy by 2025.
Residents have to wade through water and walk along the railing on Jericho Beach Park Pier in Vancouver, B.C., due to a king tide that has flooded the walkway of the pier. These higher-than-normal tides offer a glimpse at future sea levels, as Vancouver makes design choices to protect the city and its residents.
During our "Covering the Climate" series, we'll focus on the so-called "Emerald Corridor," which runs south from Vancouver, B.C., through Washington to the Willamette Valley around Portland. Credit: Credit: Google Maps
The 2100 Project’s Atlas for the Green New Deal from the McHarg Center at the University of Pennsylvania, with maps of land, resources and vulnerabilities
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Forest collaboratives formed in the wake of the Pacific Northwest’s “Timber Wars” have become major power players operating largely out of the public eye
In a webinar hosted by regional transmission authorities, data centers were called a “major challenge” for the energy industry, as well as extreme weather
A 2023 DeSmog investigation uncovered a “backroom deal” between Portland city officials and Zenith Energy. New documents show the state environmental regulator also met with the company.
Gary "Chris" Twombley was put on administrative leave in December 2023
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