Oregon State government
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by Jonathan Gates on September 14, 2020Thousands of people in the Rogue Valley have been displaced by wildfires and hundreds of homes, businesses, and community spaces have been destroyed, including the headquarters of our grassroots partner Rogue Climate. Read more -
by Gregg Small on September 10, 2020Our climate movement is more unified than ever, but we're reaching a critical point where we must change a lot of things all at once. Let's do this together. Read more
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by Ben Jones and J... on September 9, 2020If you live west of the Cascades in the Pacific Northwest, you likely woke up yesterday to an awful late-summer surprise (if you weren't under wildfire threat already): a blanket of unhealthy wildfire smoke. Read more
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by Zach Baker on September 1, 2020One major component of the Oregon Climate Action Plan is a directive for the state Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to set up a new program to “cap and reduce” climate-harming pollution from Oregon’s large polluters. Read more
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by Victoria Paykar on August 7, 2020Our state needs to prioritize cleaning up the delivery trucks, transit and school buses, big rigs, and other commercial vehicles that make up the medium and heavy duty transportation sector. Read more
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by Jonathan Gates on July 28, 2020Oregon legislators have proposed cutting the state’s only support for many rural and low-income communities to access solar and energy storage for their own roofs. Read more
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by Victoria Paykar on July 17, 2020The Portland metro region needs safe, efficient, and affordable transportation options. Get Moving 2020 will help make these possible, all while reducing climate pollution and addressing systemic inequities. Read more -
by Zach Baker on June 24, 2020Last month, twelve state agencies delivered their plans to carry out the Governor’s Executive Order on climate. Here's what we know so far. Read more -
by Victoria Paykar on June 18, 2020Shifting to electric vehicles economy-wide is one of the fastest ways we can clean our air. However, we do not experience harmful air pollution equally, so we must ensure that communities facing disproportionate toxic air pollution are prioritized for transportation programs and infrastructure that improve air quality. Read more
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by Meredith Connolly on April 24, 2020Global warming has not paused to respect social distancing during these ‘corona times.’ However, in early March, Oregon Governor Kate Brown delivered one of the country's strongest Executive Orders on climate in early March, now called the “Oregon Climate Action Plan.” Read more
