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Climate Budget for 2024: Lowering Families’ Housing and Transportation Costs
A Climate Budget brings an equitable and rapid transition from fossil fuels to clean energy closer within reach while increasing the resilience of our communities. Funding to enable urgently needed home repairs and efficiency upgrades and to make new and used electric vehicles more affordable will lower the cost of living, improve health and resilience, and reduce climate pollution. Supporting needed investment in these popular programs was requested during the 2023 legislative session, and needed more than ever.
Affordable Energy Bills and Resilient Housing: $15M for Healthy Homes Program
Affordable Access to Clean Transportation: $20M for Charge Ahead EV rebates
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Solar supplies nearly 10 percent of California’s power in 2015, GM rolls out mass-market electric car with 200-mile range, NASA tests more…
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Less than a month after the historic Paris agreement on climate change, Oregon utilities, climate advocates and environmental groups are…
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This week the Renew Oregon Action Fund began a new chapter in Oregon’s clean energy transition, filing ballot measures to allow…
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Broad coalitions for climate action took bold steps this week in Oregon and Washington, announcing plans to put climate and clean energy…
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The Renew Oregon coalition is bringing Oregon businesses together with other voices for climate action. The list of companies backing the Oregon…
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Tough legislative sessions in Washington and Oregon are over. But we, together with an inspiring coalition, are just getting started.
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The 2015 Oregon legislative session concluded last week, and the outcomes for climate were decidedly mixed. With a clear win on clean fuels, there…
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Oregon businesses are responding in ever-increasing numbers to the threat of global warming, and the ways climate change is harming our…
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Oil drilling suspended in Canadian Arctic, clean fuel rule survives challenge in Oregon, New York State sets higher climate targets, and…
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The oil industry wants to protect their monopoly, and wash their hands of responsiblity for cleaning our air and protecting the climate. That's what'…
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With Oregon legislators threatening to repeal the state's recently-enacted Clean Fuels program, and with no other signs of climate policy…
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You know you’re doing something right when Big Oil is working this hard to stop you.
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On February 2, the first day of the Oregon Legislature, the Senate Environment & Natural Resources committee will
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Working together, we can make sure Oregon seizes the day. Here’s a rundown of several priorities and upcoming events in 2015.
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The Portland region's largest transit agency has committed to transitioning to a 100% clean, diesel-free bus fleet over the next two decades.
Oregon Public Utility Commission recommends changes for the electricity sector to better address climate change and equity
As the season shifts, so does our determination to fight—and win—on climate and clean energy.
TriMet is at a critical decision point on the path to zero emission electric buses, and wants to hear from you.