Alex Baumhardt
Oregon Capital ChronicleAlex Baumhardt is a JPR content partner from the Oregon Capital Chronicle. Before that Alex was a national radio producer focusing on education for American Public Media. She has reported from the Arctic to the Antarctic for national and international media, and from Minnesota and Oregon for The Washington Post.
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The judge ruled that the Jewell School District failed to make the case that the Oregon Department of Forestry was violating a funding law by reducing logging. -
The decision, which officials said would fight climate change, makes Oregon the second state after Michigan to dedicate an entire state forest to storing harmful emissions while selling carbon credits for revenue. -
Republicans are backing a proposal to scale back environmental regulations to 鈥渢hin鈥� forests while Democrats and environmentalists want to fund community preparedness. -
A dozen projects slated to be built in the next five years could encourage more renewable energy development and lower costs, according to a report. -
Results from the latest statewide assessment tests show student proficiency in reading, writing, math and science are still far below pre-pandemic levels. -
A partial list from the Oregon Department of Forestry shows it has collected $86,000 of $24 million it paid to fight several dozen wildfires that were maliciously or negligently ignited over the last two decades. -
The Oregon Department of Forestry is getting help from the state鈥檚 general fund to pay its bills after a record wildfire season. -
Oregon鈥檚 forest and fire leaders were succinct in describing this year鈥檚 wildfire season to a group of Oregon senators. -
Thousands of gallons of liquid nuclear waste are slated to be removed from the Hanford nuclear site in Washington via train through Oregon. -
More than 1 million acres of federal land in central and southern Oregon could soon be leased for solar energy projects. -
Leaders of the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians said they will drop their lawsuit if the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management delays its October auction for developers. -
The Jewell School District in Clatsop County plans to 鈥渂et the farm鈥� to overturn a habitat conservation plan that threatens the district鈥檚 timber funding.
