Editor's Take: June 04, 2008
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Riding the Wind Energy Wave
Danish Vestas Wind Systems in Portland is riding rapid industry expansion propelled by ballooning costs of oil and mandates for cleaner alternatives. The company announced 200 new jobs in Corvallis and an $817 million turbine deal to a Midwest utility. Houston, however, won the company’s investment in a state-of-the-art solar research center. Why? Not enough engineering grads from Oregon universities.
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Green Jobs: Portland's Vestas Wind Systems Expands
Oregonian
06/04/2008
Vestas, the world's top turbine maker, with American HQ in Portland, already employs more than 300 here. The company is riding rapid expansion in the wind-power industry and expects to add 200 more workers in the coming year as orders increase for U.S. buyers. The Danish company, however, passed up Oregon for $25 million research center.
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Campaign Shifts To McCain vs. Obama
Seattle Times
06/04/2008
The Democratic presidential nomination his, Barack Obama reached out Wednesday to mend fences with his defeated rival as Republican opponent John McCain tried to frame the fall campaign on his own terms.
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Mixed Review for Oregon's Minorities
AP
06/03/2008
Asian-Americans living in Oregon have made good progress in education, health and safety and financial status over the past fifteen years, according to a new study from the Oregon Progress Board.
But the news is not as positive for the state's growing population of Hispanics, as well as for the state's small number of African-Americans and American Indians.
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GOP Rallies to Scuttle Climate-Change Bill
San Francisco Chronicle
06/04/2008
Republicans stepped up their efforts to defeat the proposed Lieberman-Warner climate security bill Tuesday, making familiar claims: that it would create a huge new bureaucracy to distribute trillions of dollars in proceeds from the sale of greenhouse gas credits. Proponents, meanwhile, look forward to putting those dollars to work on a clean energy future for American families and industry.
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EPA Health, Environment Grants for Minorities
Coos Bay World
06/04/2008
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has up to $800,000 in grant money available for low-income and minority communities to develop locally-based solutions to their sometimes disproportionate share of environmental and public health issues.
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Views: Calling for Fair and Quick Climate Action
Seattle Times
06/04/2008
The energy-price increases from the emissions-reduction goals will pale in comparison to the economic devastation later in the century if nothing is done.
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Goodbye to the Age of SUV's?
New York Times
06/04/2008
As gas prices keep rising, Americans are changing their driving habits quickly. General Motors said Tuesday that it would stop making pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles at four of its North American plants after seeing sales drop drastically.
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Alaska's Copper River Salmon a Golden Catch
KPLU
06/04/2008
A shutdown of salmon fishing along the U.S. West Coast, due to depleted stocks, and a light run so far this season have driven prices of Copper River salmon to near an all-time high, fetching as much as $45 a pound for the oil-rich fillets.
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Canadian Companies Learn the Carbon Trading Ropes
The National Post
06/04/2008
Canadian executives are learning that they need to cut their carbon emissions. But their job will not be done until they master new carbon trading markets, too.
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Views: Taking Control of Our Energy Future
Oregonian
06/04/2008
Our nation's economy is suffering, energy prices are out of control and the negative effects of global warming are occurring. It's time for us to take control of our energy future, bring energy costs back under control and build a clean energy economy that benefits all of us.
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