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In Wake of Recent Natural Disasters, Cantwell Introduces Bipartisan Legislation Enabling Utilities to Invest in System Upgrades

January 12, 2026 GNCadm1n Comments Off

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and senior member of the Finance Committee, this week introduced the Disaster Zone Energy Affordability and Investment […]

WA’s 2026 legislative session is getting underway. Will anyone be smiling when it’s over?

January 12, 2026 GNCadm1n Comments Off

by Jerry Cornfield and Bill Lucia, Washington State StandardJanuary 12, 2026 Washington state lawmakers begin a 60-day session today, in which a fiscal reckoning, flood recovery, and their own reelections loom large. They departed Olympia […]

Oregon immigrant rights attorneys sue to stop warrantless ICE arrests

January 12, 2026 GNCadm1n Comments Off

by Mia Maldonado, Oregon Capital ChronicleJanuary 12, 2026 Immigration rights attorneys are asking a federal court to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement from arresting people without a warrant in Oregon. Portland-based Innovation Law Lab filed […]

Groups at odds over proposed nitrate pollution rules for farmers in northeast Oregon

January 12, 2026 GNCadm1n Comments Off

by Alex Baumhardt, Oregon Capital ChronicleJanuary 12, 2026 After decades of farm and food processing pollution contaminating groundwater in northeast Oregon, state regulators are proposing new monitoring and testing rules for large farms in the […]

Justice Department Announces Charges Against Illegal Alien, Known Tren de Aragua Associate, for Violent Attack on Border Patrol Agents in Portland

January 12, 2026 GNCadm1n Comments Off

PORTLAND, Ore.—Today, the Justice Department announced criminal charges against Luis Nino-Moncada, an illegal alien and known Tren de Aragua (TdA) associate living in the Portland, Oregon area for violently striking a federal law enforcement vehicle. […]