Advocates reach settlement with Avista to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, expand low-income efficiency programs
By: Greer Ryan on
[PRESS RELEASE] A historic settlement in a contested rate case between Oregon’s second-largest gas utility and intervening organizations will require Avista to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, dramatically expand low-income weatherization programs and restrict political spending by the gas company that undermines state climate law.
By: Kurt Ellison on
Maritime shipping can and must change course to address the climate crisis.
By: Juan M. Muñoz Jiménez on
Stuck between wildfires, smoke, and heat dome, facing the new climate reality
By: Meredith Connolly on
The longest GOP walkout in state history has finally come to an end. It has been an egregious situation where a bloc of Republican Senators used non-democratic tactics to deny the collective will of all Oregonians and shutdown the government for weeks.
By: Greer Ryan on
Avista is seeking to increase gas bills to expand the gas system when they should be shrinking it. Oregon has climate goals requiring gas utilities to slash pollution by 90% by 2050.
By: Juan M. Muñoz Jiménez on
In this week's ClimateCast: Debt ceiling raised with climate consequences, Oregon legislation crippled due to GOP walkouts, insurers batten down the hatches against climate impacts.
By: Greer Ryan on
NW Natural doesn't have a realistic plan to meet Oregon's climate goals. Tell the Commission to send them back to the drawing board.
By: Meredith Connolly on
By denying quorum for the state Senate to do business, Oregon's Senate Republicans have ground all progress in the Oregon legislature — and even the state budget — to a halt. The state’s climate agenda hangs in the balance among many other critical priorities.
By: Stephanie Noren on
Induced paralysis in the Oregon State Legislature: here we go again. Plus record-setting heat across the PNW, breaching 1.5C of global temperature rise, and more in this week's ClimateCast
By: Meredith Connolly on
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We think you’ll agree: Every single Oregonian deserves to be protected from the climate crisis.