Monica Samayoa
Oregon Public BroadcastingMonica Samayoa is a reporter with OPB鈥檚 Science & Environment unit. Before OPB, Monica was an on-call general assignment reporter at KQED in San Francisco. She also helped produce The California Report and KQED Newsroom. In 2017 she studied abroad in Sydney, Australia, where she attended University of Technology Sydney to finish her degree. There, she was able to get her first taste in radio while producing and hosting for 2SER, Sydney Educational Radio.
Monica holds a bachelor's degree in Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts from San Francisco State University.
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Oregon is looking for contractors to help kickstart a new heat pump incentive program, as part of the state鈥檚 ongoing push to reduce carbon emissions by supporting a move toward more efficient home heating and cooling systems. -
House Bill 3546, known as the POWER Act, is now headed to Gov. Tina Kotek鈥檚 desk. It could lead to higher rates for industrial electricity customers that currently pay much less per kilowatt hour than residential customers. -
For years, Oregon has been working to write and enforce rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from commercial trucks. Now the Trump administration and the U.S. Senate could derail that effort. -
Oregonians looking to purchase or lease an electric vehicle can now apply for some cash back, as the state reopens its popular rebate program this week. -
Oregon and Washington are nowhere near achieving their clean energy goals. The dramatic consequences are already being felt. -
Oregon and Washington passed aggressive goals to decarbonize their power supply but left it to the Bonneville Power Administration to build the transmission lines needed for wind and solar. The agency hasn鈥檛 delivered. -
Environmental and climate groups are asking lawmakers to again fund heat pump rebates for rental housing. -
Environmental and climate advocates are looking to revamp the state鈥檚 popular electric vehicle rebate program by lowering the rebate amount and allowing only qualified low-income residents to participate. But some say these changes could impact overall EV sales throughout the state. -
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has proposed draft rules for the state's Clean Truck Rules.
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Oregon environmental regulators could once again delay implementation of medium-to-heavy duty clean truck rules 鈥� giving the commercial trucking industry more time for the technology and infrastructure to develop across the state. -
Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill that would require certain large energy users, like data centers and cryptocurrency businesses, to pay their share for electricity use. -
State environmental officials say Oregon once again has access to hundreds of millions of dollars of federal funding aimed at climate action. That鈥檚 after the federal government froze the funds in January.
