Last month when Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek announced that the state wouldn’t toll highways until at least 2026, the Oregon Department of Transportation pumped the brakes on a billion-dollar plan to expand I-5 through Portland’s Rose Quarter. That was big news for Adah Crandall of Sunrise Movement, a national youth climate justice organization. Adah has led the fight against the I-5 expansion, despite the fact that today she’s only 17 years old.
Today we’re talking with a youth climate change organizer about why she’s been fighting so hard against the freeway expansion, and why the younger generation sees the issue so differently from most adults.
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