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The Oregon House of Representatives brought a climate-related bill to vote in 2019, after state Democrats gained a supermajority in the House. The bill was written to build a state cap-and-trade plan to reduce emissions 45 percent below 1990 levels by 2035 and 80 percent by 2050.
Status: Not passed. House Bill 2020 was a proposed bill in the U.S. state of Oregon that would introduce a statewide cap and trade system to reduce carbon emissions to address climate change. It was introduced in the Legislative Assembly in January 2019 and underwent major changes before being passed by the House of Representatives on June 18 ...
Oregon Petition. The Global Warming Petition Project, also known as the Oregon Petition, is a group which urges the United States government to reject the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 and similar policies. Their petition challenges the scientific consensus on climate change. Though the group claims more than thirty-thousand signatories across various ...
A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday rejected a long-running lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists who argued that the U.S. government's role in climate change violated ...
A state appeals court in Oregon decided late Wednesday that the rules for a program designed to limit and drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel companies are invalid. The ...
A federal judge ruled on Thursday that a lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists can proceed to trial years after they first filed the lawsuit in an attempt to hold the nation’s ...
According to the Köppen climate classification, most of Western Oregon has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (or Csb type), which features warm, dry summers, and wet winters with frequent overcast and cloudy skies. Eastern Oregon falls into the cold semi-arid climate (or BSk type), which features drier weather.
2007 - Passed Climate Change Integration Act, setting greenhouse gas reduction goals for Oregon into statute and established statewide Global Warming Commission 2007 - Launched the Carbon Neutral Challenge for Oregon wineries , with dozens of Oregon wineries participating to reduce their carbon footprints [12]