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| 2009-06-30 | |
| The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today approved the Clean Air Act waiver that Oregon – as well as 13 other states and the District of Columbia – needs to implement its program to reduce global warming pollution from passenger vehicles. | |
| 2009-04-22 | |
| This Earth Day, Oregonians have a real opportunity to harness the power of clean energy to transform our economy and protect the earth, according to Environment Oregon. We are calling on clean energy supporters around Oregon to postpone their Earth Day celebrations for five minutes today and first ask their member of Congress to rebuild the economy with clean energy and stop global warming. | |
| 2009-03-26 | |
| As the state legislature considers critical legislation to address global warming, the Environment Oregon Research and Policy Center released a new report, Global Warming Solutions: A Progress Report, demonstrating that current and key proposed policies can enable Oregon to exceed its 2020 state goals for global warming pollution reductions, and set the state on a path to meet its longer-term goals. | |
| 2009-03-04 | |
| The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hear testimony on allowing Oregon and more than a dozen other states to move forward on strong clean cars standards that the Bush administration had been blocking. Giving a green light to Oregon’s clean cars program would reduce global warming pollution from cars by 14.2 million metric tons by 2020. And from reduced gasoline consumption, Oregonians would save $3.04 billion by 2020 at the pump, according to Environment Oregon’s analysis. | |
| 2008-09-18 | |
| Environment Oregon: Auctioning Pollution Permits Speeds Transition To A Clean Energy Economy, Protects Consumers | |
| 2008-04-21 | |
| On Earth Day, Oregonians take it upon themselves to figure out ways to reduce their impact on the environment, to reduce their carbon footprint. But elected officials, from Congress to the state Legislature, have a unique responsibility on Earth Day because they are in a position to reduce our carbon footprint on a much bigger scale and move us toward energy independence. | |
| 2007-07-24 | |
| Portland - This July's heat wave appears to be part of a larger pattern: Portland had nearly twice as many days at 90 ° or hotter in 2006 than the historical average, according to a new study released today by Environment Oregon. The trend appears statewide - all seven cities studied reported more days at 90 ° in 2006 than their historical averages. The trend also holds up over time: all seven cities had warmer-than-normal average temperatures for the seven years ending with 2006. | |
| 2007-07-24 | |
| Eugene—This July’s heat wave appears to be part of a larger pattern: Eugene had nearly twice as many days at 90° or hotter in 2006 than the historical average, according to a new study released today by Environment Oregon. The trend appears statewide—all seven cities studied reported more days at 90° in 2006 than their historical averages. The trend also holds up over time: all seven cities had warmer-than-normal average temperatures for the seven years ending with 2006. | |
| 2006-09-26 | |
| A bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives, including four members of Oregon’s congressional delegation, sent a letter today to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, urging him to approve a waiver that Oregon and 10 other states need to implement their Clean Cars program, which will limit global warming pollution and other harmful emissions from cars and SUVs. The EPA has not acted on a waiver request originally made in December 2005. | |
| 2006-09-14 | |
| Washington, DC —This year’s unprecedented heat wave is part of a broader trend of rising temperatures across the country, according to a new report released today by the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG). | |
| 2006-08-31 | |
| PORTLAND—Wednesday night, in the final days of California’s legislative session, Governor Schwarzenegger and the State Legislature reached an agreement on California’s historic global warming bill, The Global Warming Solutions Act. | |
| 2006-07-19 | |
| Today, Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR) joined Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) to introduce the Fuel Economy Reform Act of 2006, a promising new bill to make our cars and SUVs go farther on a gallon of gasoline. | |
| 2006-06-05 | |
| PORTLAND—After the Pacific Northwest’s first month in history with gasoline prices hovering around $3 a gallon, Governor Kulongoski today joined OSPIRG to call on the Oregon Congressional delegation to vote for a proposal to increase automobile gas mileage standards to 33 miles per gallon (mpg). | |
| 2006-05-02 | |
| Our governor and attorney general is doing the right thing by working to force change at the federal level to help Oregonians facing budget-busting gas prices. Better gas mileage not only saves money at the gas pump, it’s also one of the biggest steps America can take to curb global warming pollution. | |
| 2006-02-18 | |
| Clean cars programs adopted by Oregon and 9 other states will cut global warming pollution in 2020 by 64 million metric tons per year, an amount greater than the national emissions of more than 140 nations, according to new analysis by the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG). | |
| 2005-12-22 | |
| The state’s Environmental Quality Commission voted today to adopt the Clean Cars program, which will require new cars and trucks sold in Oregon to cut their global warming pollution. | |
| 2005-11-17 | |
| PORTLAND—Weeks before the Environmental Quality Commission is poised to vote on a temporary rule to adopt the Clean Cars program, Oregonians gathered to display clean car technology and support for adopting the standards. At the event, where Oregonians brought their own clean cars, OSPIRG released a new report documenting advanced technology for cutting pollution from cars and trucks and delivered more than 4,000 thank you cards to the Governor for his support for the Clean Cars program. | |
| 2005-10-04 | |
| PORTLAND—According to a new study released by Oregon State Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG), global warming pollution from cars and light trucks in Oregon will rise to 31% above 1990 levels by 2020 if the state doesn’t take action to control emissions. | |
| 2005-09-15 | |
| At an event in front of Mercedes Benz of Portland, OSPIRG and the Sierra Club called on auto dealers who are suing to block the Clean Cars program to withdraw their names from the complaint. | |
| 2005-09-12 | |
| The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers filed suit Friday against two Oregon state agencies seeking to block the adoption of the Clean Cars program, a set of emissions standards aimed at making cuts in Oregon’s global warming pollution. | |
| 2005-08-29 | |
| PORTLAND—Governor Kulongoski put Oregon on the road to cleaner cars today, in an announcement to a large crowd of supporters in Pioneer Courthouse Square. | |
| 2005-08-06 | |
| SALEM—Notably absent from the final actions of the 2005 Oregon Legislature was a provision blocking Oregon’s environmental agencies from adopting new air pollution regulations for cars and light trucks. | |
| 2005-07-15 | |
| WASHINGTON, D.C.—A split three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals today failed to answer whether the U.S. EPA has authority to regulate pollution that causes global warming. | |
| 2005-06-07 | |
| SALEM—The Oregon House of Representatives will vote today on House Resolution 3, a measure declaring that state agencies should not act to limit global warming pollution. | |
| 07-20-2006 | |
| PORTLAND—Energy companies are planning to build over 150 coal-fired power plants in locations across the United States, including four coal plants proposed to meet Oregon’s electricity needs, according to a report released today by OSPIRG. | |
| 05-20-2006 | |
| MEDFORD—Southern Oregon’s roads have seen a 14% increase in traffic since 1991, and Josephine County has seen a 24% increase, according to analysis released by the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG) in advance of a public hearing here on the proposed Clean Cars program. | |
| As residents of the Gulf Coast clean up in the hurricane aftermath and rebuild their lives, it is important that Americans continue to support their efforts. | |