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2009-10-26
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| “This bill can be reduced to a series of fairly clear choices,” said Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon. “It is a choice between clean air or dirty air; it is a choice between investing a billion dollars a day in red, white and blue American-made energy or sending that billion dollars a day overseas to countries like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia and other countries that don’t always share our national interests.” |
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2009-09-17
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| When it comes to the economic, social and political collaboration needed to develop renewable energy from the ocean, Oregon is a model for other states, according to state Sen. Betsy Johnson. |
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2009-09-14
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| Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting Advisory Group will begin meeting again and the Oregon DEQ is taking public comment on its updated reporting requirements. |
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2009-08-15
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| In pushing through HB 2940, the high-priced corporate timber and trash-burning lobby pushed a special interest add-on benefiting them at the expense of Oregon's clean energy future. It was these special interests who chose a singular path and crushed the innovation of creative and pioneering businesses in building Oregon's green energy economy. |
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Take the lead on green
- The Oregonian (new window)
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2009-08-15
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| Governor's decision to rightly vetoes bill that reduced green tax credit, now it's time for comprehensive national climate policy, says Leeor Schweitzer, an Environment Oregon canvasser. |
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2009-08-13
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| Kulongoski rightly vetoed House Bills 2940 and 2472. This is not the time to be playing Russian roulette with our environment or economy. |
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2009-08-07
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| As promised, Gov. Ted Kulongoski vetoed bills today that would have reduced a lucrative business energy tax credit popular with wind farms and allowed older biomass energy plants to qualify for the state's goal of generating 25 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2025. |
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2009-07-27
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| During most of the state legislative session, climate legislation looked to be in grave danger. But by sine die and the ink drying from the governor's pen, the 2009 session proved to be quite successful the standpoint of passing much environmental legislation. Yet, Oregon still has 60% to 80% carbon gap toward meeting its 2030 greenhouse gas target.
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2008-09-23
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| A coalition of 11 western states and Canadian provinces Tuesday unveiled the world’s most ambitious market-based framework for reducing greenhouse gases. |
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2008-09-23
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| The Western Climate Initiative governments today announced the design of their new regional market-based cap-and-trade program. The emissions trading program is intended to reduce climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. |
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2007-07-31
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| Energy prices, the conflict in the Middle East and growing concern over the progress of global warming have jumpstarted a long-stalled national conversation about the direction of America’s energy policy.
The U.S. House of Representatives will take up that conversation as they debate energy legislation as early as this week. There has never been deeper public support for increasing the amount of power we get from renewable energy. |
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2007-07-29
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| Lawmakers in Washington should pay close attention to something that happened this spring in Oregon as the Legislature debated the Renewable Energy Standard to require that Oregon utilities generate 25 percent of our energy from new renewable sources by 2025. This week, Congress is considering a proposed national standard. They should take a lesson from the Beaver State and include that policy in their energy bill.
In Oregon, renewable energy is uniting Oregonians across the urban-rural divide. Oregon's Renewable Energy Standard - and the proposed national standard - has the support of farmers and rural landowners from Hood River, Sherman, Gilliam and Union counties, as well as environmentalists from Portland. Rural county commissioners testified alongside the League of Oregon Cities. Religious leaders, consumer advocates and business leaders all joined in support. |
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2007-07-27
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| PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Public Utility Commission has given Oregon businesses a bigger incentive to put solar panels on the roofs of their factories, warehouses and offices under new rules that went into effect Friday.
The updated policy increases the size of renewable energy systems eligible for a state program that requires electric utilities to buy electricity when those systems produce more than their owners can use. The action could spur investment in solar energy in the private sector because it allows companies greater leverage over their electricity costs. |
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2007-07-26
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| No matter what side you are on in the debate over global warming, or if you're undecided like many, there is no arguing the fact the debate itself is as heated as ever, and the High Desert is no exception.
At a press conference this week in Bend, the group Environment Oregon said scientists are sounding alarm bells about the impacts of continued global warming. |
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It's been a hotter century so far
- Medford Mail Tribune (new window)
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2007-07-25
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| If you think the Medford area seems warmer since the turn of the century, it isn't just your imagination heating up. The local average temperature from 2000 through 2006 was above normal by the biggest margin  1.7 degrees  of the seven Oregon sites studied, according to research released Tuesday by the Portland-based Environment Oregon Research & Policy Center. |
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2007-07-24
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| Are you feeling the heat? Today Environment Oregon released a study saying Oregon's average temperature is heating up. Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy was on hand for the announcement which took place outside of Eugene City Hall. |
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2007-07-24
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| A new study of temperature trends by an Oregon environmental group shows that the Northwest is already sweating under the effects of climate change. The report, released Tuesday by the conservation arm of OSPIRG, shows that last year's hot summer is one of a number of national and regional indicators that the globe is indeed warming. Rob Manning took a look at the study, and has this report. |
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Hot Time in the Cities
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2007-07-24
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| Get ready to start peeling off those layers. Portland's summer of 2006 was one of the hottest ever recorded, according to researchers at Environment Oregon, who predicted more of the same at the unveiling of a new climate change report at the Rose Garden in Southwest Portland's Washington Park. |
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2007-07-16
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| I strongly agree with the July 8 online editorial from the Des Moines Register (June 30), “Another View: Energy bill chugs along, losing steam†that Congress may be dropping the ball when it comes renewable energy. Our Legislature recognized the importance of clean energy last month when it passed Oregon’s state-wide renewable energy standard. That law requires our largest utilities to generate 25 percent of their electricity from renewable resources by 2025. |
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2007-06-07
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| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski on Wednesday signed into law a requirement that 25 percent of power delivered by the state's biggest utilities be made from renewable sources by 2025.
Oregon became at least the 24th U.S. state to have established a 'renewable portfolio standard." It is the last of the three Pacific Coast states, that also include Washington and California, to establish an RPS. |
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2007-06-07
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| SALEM - Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski signed into law one of the nation's toughest renewable energy standards Wednesday, requiring large utilities to generate 25 percent of the state's electricity from renewable resources such as wind, sunlight and biomass by 2025. |
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2007-06-07
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| The governor, legislators and renewable-energy supporters pointed to every region of Oregon when touting the new renewable-energy standard.
Wave power from the coast. Geothermal energy from south central. Wind from Eastern Oregon. Biomass from forested communities. Solar power from the entire state. |
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2007-06-07
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| Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski signed into law one of the nation's toughest renewable energy standards Wednesday, requiring large utilities to generate 25 percent of the state's electricity from renewable resources such as wind, sunlight and biomass by 2025. |
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Oregon explores its energy future
- Statesman Journal (new window)
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2007-06-06
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| The Oregon Legislature is on track to make the state more energy efficient, but bills that would have set up a mechanism to specifically limit emissions have been left behind this session. |
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2007-06-06
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| Governor Kulongoski signed a bill into law on Wednesday that would make Oregon's power greener and its air cleaner in the near future. The bill requires that large utilities generate one quarter of the state's electricity from renewable sources by 2025.
Those sources include wind power. The governor called the billl, the most significant economic and environmental legislation in Oregon in more than 30 years. |
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Energy bill heads to gov.
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2007-06-01
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| SALEM - A bill calling for Oregon utilities to generate 25 percent of their electricity from renewable resources is headed back to where it started: the desk of Gov. Ted Kulongoski.
As expected, the Oregon Senate May 25 concurred with amendments the House added to Senate Bill 838 and repassed the bill.
Senate Bill 838 passed the House May 23. |
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2007-05-31
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| As Oregon moves to become a national leader in alternative energy, state and local policymakers must remember that effective leadership requires collaboration – not coercion.
The latest news from Salem and Portland demonstrates that Oregon is making up for lost time in the area of alternative fuels. The Oregon House last week passed landmark legislation that will push Oregon ahead of other states in encouraging the development of renewable energy sources. |
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Chasing the energy hat (Editorial)
- The Register-Guard (new window)
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2007-05-27
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| An old Irish saying defines the act of commitment as tossing your hat over a wall and then figuring out how to retrieve it.
The Oregon Legislature has thrown its energy hat over the wall, approving legislation that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming and make this state a leader in clean energy technologies ranging from wind power to solar energy. |
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2007-05-25
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| Shunning attempts to send legislation updating Oregon's 1971 Bottle Bill back to committee for more work, the Senate voted 20-8 on Friday to concur with House amendments and move Senate Bill 707 on to the governor for his signature. |
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2007-05-24
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| The sun, wind and waves will likely play a bigger role in providing Oregon's electricity with the passage of the renewable energy standard bill in the House on Wednesday.
Lawmakers voted 41-18 to approve Senate Bill 838 C, which requires utilities to purchase 25 percent renewable energy by 2025.
"This is probably the biggest environmental bill in several decades in terms of impact on global warming and at the same time helping the environment and protecting rural economies," said Jeremiah Baumann, an advocate for Environment Oregon, a new organization created out of the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group. |
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