A climate protection plan that exempts gas power plants(?!)
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has proposed exempting the state's fossil gas power plants from their Climate Protection Program. This cannot stand.
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Climate Protection Program (CPP)
The Climate Protection Program (CPP) creates a clear, achievable plan to require Oregon's largest fossil fuel companies and major polluters to cut their carbon pollution dramatically over the coming years. These can also contribute to the innovative Community Climate Investment program, which is estimated to deliver more than $150 million to help lower Oregonian’s energy bills and support clean energy projects that benefit Black, Indigenous, people of color, low-income, rural, and other communities across the state.
Oregon's Environmental Quality Commission chooses industry over communities to develop air pollution regulations
The EQC has decided to stack the cap-and-reduce rulemaking advisory committee with fossil fuel and big business interests.
Cap-and-reduce: Will DEQ step up to the plate?
By no longer allowing industries to spew unlimited amounts of pollution into our air, DEQ's new cap-and-reduce policy can help transition Oregon to cleaner ways of powering our economy and communities.
Cap-and-reduce: What’s at stake as DEQ kicks off program design
One 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.
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