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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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Last updated 2/6/2024
Read on for the latest updates on Climate Solutions' work in Oregon:
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Audi president tells dealers that EVs will dominate market within a decade, Toshiba to quit building nuclear power plants, Sweden plans to be climate…
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On the 10th anniversary of Oregon’s climate goals, a new Oregon Clean Energy Report Card assesses what has been accomplished and where we still need…
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US sends $500 million to Green Climate Fund, Chinese President Xi urges Trump to stand by Paris accord, hacktivists prepare offshore archive of…
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The way forward is aggressive action at the state and local levels. Here's how we're planning to build on our success in Oregon.
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Portland continues to lead the way with big steps including banning new fossil fuel terminals, improving energy efficiency in homes with energy…
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The first six months of 2016 were perhaps the most productive of our entire 18 year history. Here's a mid-year update, and a look at what's…
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Oregon has the highest per-capita ownership of emissions-cheating Volkswagens in the U.S. Now the state plans to spend some of…
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Union Pacific track maintenance blamed for oil-train derailment, VW will pay nearly $15 billion to settle US claims in emissions deceit scandal…
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VW announces major move into EVs, Sweden to keep nuclear plants open ’til 2040s, first mammalian species succumbs to global warming, and more news of…
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With temperatures already hitting historic highs, momentum and investment in clean energy solutions are also increasing rapidly. Oregonians…
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The heat is on - and not in a good way. It’s Extreme Heat Week here the U.S., and Meredith Connolly reflects on her experience working on…
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2.5 million Americans work in clean energy, South Africa and Nevada solar plants provide night-time power, coalition builds behind Clean Power…
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We're still celebrating Oregon's new Clean Electricity and Coal Transition law! Here we explain why we love it so much, how it moves the needle…
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Dem candidates take different approaches to fracking, China to reduce its energy intensity 18% by 2020, Canada weighs national carbon…
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Legislation will move Oregon off coal power, double state’s clean energy target to 50% by 2040
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Oregon's legislature just established an ambitious statewide timeline for adopting zero-emission cars, buses, and commercial vehicles.
Oregon’s 2019 legislative session will likely go down in history for what did not happen for the climate - and rightly so.
Will Oregon be the state that ran away and hid from our climate responsibility, or will we reclaim our position of climate leadership?
After a record-length debate following record-high temperatures in Salem, the Oregon House of Representatives passed the Clean Energy Jobs Act, HB 2020B, 36-24. Now the Senate will take up the bill.
Clean Energy Jobs is now in the home stretch. Contact your legislators today, and let's make history!
With a clean energy win accomplished in Washington, attention now turns to Oregon. Also: other states and cities show what climate leadership does and does not look like.
With just over two months left to pass bills that make climate progress this year, we’re working hard to get a wide range of climate strategies
The Oregon legislature has the opportunity to take a critical step forward by banning fracking for oil or gas.