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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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Kids breathe easier on electric school buses

Kids deserve to breathe clean, unpolluted air. Plenty of ink has already been spilled about the harms of polluted air in homes and classrooms. However, students are still routinely exposed to dirty, polluted air from a source in virtually every school district’s driveway: the school bus.

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The Bus Company That Could

How a small business is overcoming bumps on the road to all-electric buses.

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A clean energy just transition for autoworkers

In this week's issue of Climate Cast: autoworker strike underscores the need for a just transition, the new faces of climate denial, and California enters the climate lawsuit fray.

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Our kids deserve pollution-free school buses

Washington State needs to pass a bill requiring all school buses in Washington to be zero-emission by 2035, and new bus purchases must be pollution-free by 2027. Other states have done this — so can we!

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The future of GOP climate action, ESG, and big clean trucks

Climate issues made a surprise appearance during the recent GOP Presidential debate. Let's see how the candidates responded.

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Oregon’s Climate Wins in the 2023 Legislative Session

We saw success despite a challenging legislative environment that included a minority of Senators leading the longest walkout in Oregon’s history. Because the legislative calendar was down to the wire, many climate and clean energy bills were combined into two omnibus bills...

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Climate-fueled disasters strike, and climate hope perseveres

Hawaii wildfires and the aftermath Several wildfires tore across the idyllic landscape with terrifying speed on the Hawaiian island of Maui. 

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Oil companies' lies are costing us dearly: what they don't want us to understand about the fuel market

Oil companies have a long history of lying—about their climate culpability and about the true costs of gas. Let's hold them accountable.

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WE LIKE BIG CLEAN TRUCKS AND WE CANNOT LIE

Calling all fleet managers, sustainability directors, and C-suite executives of companies with fleets: Don't miss the 12th Annual Green Transportation Summit and Expo.

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Stormy weather: a planet in extremis

If extreme heat doesn’t freak you out about climate change, your brain may have melted  Only a few years ago, it was quite rare to see news weather coverage linking extreme storms or

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Photo of kindergarteners boarding an electric school bus

Kids breathe easier on electric school buses

Submitted by Jonathan Lee on

Kids deserve to breathe clean, unpolluted air. Plenty of ink has already been spilled about the harms of polluted air in homes and classrooms. However, students are still routinely exposed to dirty, polluted air from a source in virtually every school district’s driveway: the school bus.
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A clean energy just transition for autoworkers

Submitted by Jonathan Lee on

In this week's issue of Climate Cast: autoworker strike underscores the need for a just transition, the new faces of climate denial, and California enters the climate lawsuit fray.
Read More

collage of Zero-emission vehicle photos

WE LIKE BIG CLEAN TRUCKS AND WE CANNOT LIE

Submitted by Jonathan Lee on

Calling all fleet managers, sustainability directors, and C-suite executives of companies with fleets: Don't miss the 12th Annual Green Transportation Summit and Expo.
Read More