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Special Session Wrap-Up
Our north star is simple: we need to be investing in Oregon, not DOGE’ing essential safety, transit, and climate programs or discouraging the transition to clean transportation.
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Oregon’s New Energy Strategy Confirms the Path Forward: Clean, Affordable, Reliable

The long-awaited Energy Strategy report is here, providing a roadmap for a clean energy transition, and, with the first-of-its-kind climate executive order from Governor Kotek that directs swift implementation of the findings, a cleaner, reliable, and more affordable energy future is more possible than ever before.

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Special Session Wrap-Up

Our north star is simple: we need to be investing in Oregon, not DOGE’ing essential safety, transit, and climate programs or discouraging the transition to clean transportation.

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Oregon Lawmakers Pass Transportation Funding Stopgap, Leaving Critical Investments in Safety and Climate for Another Session

Oregon lawmakers approved a transportation funding stopgap in the special session that ended Monday.

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Washington's first hybrid-electric ferry is in service! It's clean, it's quiet, and it's the future of ferry transportation in the Puget Sound.

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Oregon’s 2025 Legislative Session: Climate Wins, Losses, and the Road Ahead

Oregon’s 2025 legislative session delivered mixed results for climate progress. Sound familiar? That’s because this is the second year in a row that Oregon lawmakers fell short of delivering the bold investments and climate action this moment demands. While we secured hard-fought wins and defended against serious threats that would unwind existing progress, this was far from a banner year for climate action in Oregon. Still, this session laid important groundwork, and we have a clear call to action for the road ahead.

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Clean Air Shouldn’t Be Optional: Climate Investments should be in the Oregon Transportation Package

Everyday necessities shouldn’t come with everyday pollution. Yet the goods and resources we rely on are delivered by a freight system powered largely by diesel. This is bringing toxic emissions into our neighborhoods, schools, and lungs. Diesel pollution is not just an environmental issue, it’s a public health crisis, especially for children.

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Calling In: Tell Oregon lawmakers to invest in our transportation future TODAY!

Right now, Oregon legislators are drafting a sweeping transportation funding package. Without major course correction, it will fail to meet our state’s climate and equity goals. Transportation is our state’s largest source of climate pollution. Yet the current transportation proposal does not include any investment in clean vehicles or charging infrastructure.

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🚨 Breaking: Oregon Delays Clean Air Progress—Tell Legislators to Act Now

JUST IN: As of yesterday, the Oregon leaders decided on a major setback to clean air and climate progress. They announced a two-year delay to the state’s Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule. This delay comes after relentless lobbying by Big Oil and national truck manufacturers—and it's our communities who will bear the consequences: more diesel pollution, more asthma, more climate harm.

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Oregon backslides on clean air, public health protections amid big oil and truck lobbying and federal rollbacks

Salem, OR – In a major setback to clean air and climate progress, Oregon leaders today announced a two-year delay to the state’s Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule—bowing to pressure from fossil fuel interests and truck manufacturers as part of a nationally orchestrated multi-state campaign to derail the transition to cleaner electric vehicles. This delay strips the ACT rule of its regulatory teeth for two more years, rewards industry laggards, and directly undermines Oregon’s climate commitments, public health protections, and economic leadership.

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Midpoint Momentum: A Climate Progress Update from Oregon's 2025 Legislative Session

We’re officially over halfway through Oregon’s 2025 legislative session. Here’s the inside scoop on dynamics at the Capitol, the status of key clean energy and climate priorities, and how you can help keep the momentum going.

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Special Session Wrap-Up

Our north star is simple: we need to be investing in Oregon, not DOGE’ing essential safety, transit, and climate programs or discouraging the transition to clean transportation.
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Oregon’s 2025 Legislative Session: Climate Wins, Losses, and the Road Ahead

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Oregon’s 2025 legislative session delivered mixed results for climate progress. Sound familiar? That’s because this is the second year in a row that Oregon lawmakers fell short of delivering the bold investments and climate action this moment demands. While we secured hard-fought wins and defended against serious threats that would unwind existing progress, this was far from a banner year for climate action in Oregon. Still, this session laid important groundwork, and we have a clear call to action for the road ahead.
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text that says good jobs zero emissions lets roll, with an image of an electric school bus

Clean Air Shouldn’t Be Optional: Climate Investments should be in the Oregon Transportation Package

Everyday necessities shouldn’t come with everyday pollution. Yet the goods and resources we rely on are delivered by a freight system powered largely by diesel. This is bringing toxic emissions into our neighborhoods, schools, and lungs. Diesel pollution is not just an environmental issue, it’s a public health crisis, especially for children.
Read More

text that reads invest and protect clean transportation, email your lawmakers now

Calling In: Tell Oregon lawmakers to invest in our transportation future TODAY!

Right now, Oregon legislators are drafting a sweeping transportation funding package. Without major course correction, it will fail to meet our state’s climate and equity goals. Transportation is our state’s largest source of climate pollution. Yet the current transportation proposal does not include any investment in clean vehicles or charging infrastructure.
Read More

email your legislator today we must secure clean air progress, man holds sign that reads stop pollution

🚨 Breaking: Oregon Delays Clean Air Progress—Tell Legislators to Act Now

JUST IN: As of yesterday, the Oregon leaders decided on a major setback to clean air and climate progress. They announced a two-year delay to the state’s Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule.
This delay comes after relentless lobbying by Big Oil and national truck manufacturers—and it's our communities who will bear the consequences: more diesel pollution, more asthma, more climate harm.

Read More

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Oregon backslides on clean air, public health protections amid big oil and truck lobbying and federal rollbacks

Salem, OR – In a major setback to clean air and climate progress, Oregon leaders today announced a two-year delay to the state’s Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule—bowing to pressure from fossil fuel interests and truck manufacturers as part of a nationally orchestrated multi-state campaign to derail the transition to cleaner electric vehicles. This delay strips the ACT rule of its regulatory teeth for two more years, rewards industry laggards, and directly undermines Oregon’s climate commitments, public health protections, and economic leadership.

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