A nonprofit is starting a petition, calling for a moratorium on data center development in eastern Oregon.

On Tuesday, Oregon Rural Action launched the petition urging officials to immediately halt data center expansion, claiming ongoing harm to rural communities in the state’s data center hub.

A grassroots group in Boardman have gathered signatures for a petition demanding “fair and just” terms for safe drinking water in their homes.

Oregon Rural Action ha lanzado esta semana una petición en la que exige que se detenga de inmediato la expansión de los centros de datos en el noreste de Oregón, alegando los perjuicios que esto sigue causando a las comunidades rurales en el mayor núcleo de centros de datos del estado.

The Oregon Department of Justice filed civil charges against the eight defendants a year ago, following an investigation by The Oregonian/OregonLive. The news organization found that the directors of a local nonprofit had arranged to sell Windwave to themselves and that the assumptions they used to set the purchase price didn’t account for the value of Windwave’s business with Amazon.

Across the country, Amazon, Google and other tech companies have stocked up on diesel generators to keep their data centers humming during power outages. Like diesel-powered buses, these generators chug out black exhaust full of air pollutants that can cause cancer, asthma and heart disease.

It’s been over four years since West Glen tap water tests revealed its well water was contaminated with dangerous levels of nitrates.

A federal judge has cleared the path for a lawsuit accusing the Port of Morrow, a power company, and agricultural businesses of polluting the groundwater in the Lower Umatilla Basin to move forward.

Eastern Oregon residents who have lived for years with contaminated water can move forward with a class action lawsuit against the Port of Morrow and large food processors in the area, a federal judge ruled.

PENDLETON — The lawsuit accusing the Port of Morrow, commercial farms and operators of contaminating groundwater in Oregon’s Lower Umatilla Basin Groundwater Management Area can move forward.

Please Note: Both the article & video are in French.

Secret des données d’utilisation d’eau potable dans une municipalité, pressions sur le système hydrique et impact sur les saumons…

There’s a moment many nonprofit professionals recognize. It is when the work you care about deeply starts to feel heavier than you expected. Amy Busch knows that feeling well. She has also learned what helps carry it.

Rural Oregonians are being forced to drink contaminated water while corporations expand unchecked.

Pollution from industrialized agriculture, confined animal feeding operations, and processed food factories, has caused a decades-long public health crisis in the Lower Umatilla Basin.

Planning officials in Oregon’s Morrow County recently approved a proposal from Amazon to build a data center campus with buildings encompassing 816,000 square feet just east of the Boardman Airport. 

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Morrow County residents alleged getting sick after Amazon contributed to nitrate pollution by trying to cool the companies' computers at their data centers.