Every two years, Oregon’s top budget writers tour the state to hear from community members about which programs and services should be funded. With all the chaos and uncertainty being unleashed at the federal level, this couldn’t be a more critical moment for you to engage with legislators.

Action Alert for Oregon! Urge your legislator to support SB 1143 Thermal Energy Networks (TENs), a climate-friendly heating and cooling solution! This piece of legislation is key to decarbonizing our grid and utilizing existing infrastructure, a win-win technology.

With volatility and unknowns for the future of climate investments at the federal level, Washington's Climate Commitment Act brings some needed stability for state climate programs.

Strong vote shows excitement to expand program working for Washington; HB 1409 strengthens existing Clean Fuels standard, now to Senate

Why???? I’m the mom of very curious little people who ask me “whyyyy” more often than I feel up to answering. These days, many things are even harder than usual to explain.

The Oregon Legislature will soon hold hearings on three key bills in the 2025 energy affordability package. Your voice is essential to moving these important policies forward.

In 2024, Climate Solutions and our communities of action faced daunting challenges as we tallied what strengths we needed to defend climate progress in the Pacific Northwest. As we face even more severe challenges, our reflections on our work last year stand as a reminder that we can win when we come together.

The transition to clean electricity and the surge in demand for electricity, require that electric utilities build more renewable energy projects and expand the transmission grid to deliver that new electricity to customers, that's where Grid Enhancement Technologies (GETs) come in!

While many of us are still reeling from the sticker shock we received from our energy bills after last year’s extreme winter weather, a new round of rate increases is right around the corner. If you are anything like me, many of you are thinking about those bills as you debate whether to turn up the heat or bundle up.