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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Oregon will miss out on millions in funding from the Secure Rural Schools bill, which passed the Senate but failed to garner Republican support to pass in the House. -
Oregon will soon have more than 200 federally-funded electric school buses shuttling kids to and from school following an announcement that the state will get money for more early next year. -
A federal judge denied a timber companies鈥� complaint that firefighters did not do everything possible to stop the spread of the Beachie Creek Fire. -
The Federal Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2023, which is expected to be signed by President Joe Biden, will offer relief to survivors of wildfires dating back to 2015. -
In a recent letter, Kotek asked Biden to protect 鈥淥regon鈥檚 Grand Canyon鈥� and a stretch of the Owyhee River in the southeast of the state. -
The Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act rules were approved by the Environmental Quality Commission to reduce waste from packaging. -
The increased costs to schools for the Public Employee Retirement System in the next two years will more than wipe out the governor鈥檚 proposed increases in school funding. -
Hoyle said she would continue to work on bipartisan legislation that protects reproductive health, the environment and Oregon industries. -
The Oregon Department of State Lands signed an agreement Thursday with the company Anew Climate to put the first state forest in the West into a carbon market. -
Oregonians are invited to collaborate with state officials over the next year on a plan for developing offshore wind energy in the state. -
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.
