2025 Legislative Session

MCAT’s most recent updates on bills in the 2025 legislative session.

Requires businesses that cook, assemble, process, serve or sell food to recover and dispose of food waste.

Requires Oregon electric utilities to create strategic plans to incorporate Grid Enhancement Technologies into their future plans.

Streamline regulations to enable faster and simpler transmission planning.

Requires Oregon’s Department of Energy to expand its all-encompassing, single-resource directory of energy efficiency and incentives programs

Creates a State Public Finance Task Force to study public banking and other public financing options.

Directs Oregon’s Public Utilities Commission to establish a pilot program for natural gas companies to develop heating and cooling networks

Allows Oregon's Public Utility Commission to regulate electric companies under a new framework that better reflects the public interest.

Requires electric companies to impose a charge on big data centers that are large electricity consumers, and mitigate any increased costs to other consumers.

Requires DEQ to produce a strategic energy storage transition plan by 2026.

Requires ODOE to develop and implement a state-wide Disaster Reserves Plan for liquid fuels.

Requires gas utilities to notify the Public Utility Commission before blending hydrogen with natural gas

Requires owner/operators of landfills to regularly monitor and report methane emissions from its surface

Requires electric companies to develop programs for expanding distributed power plants

Requires new rules for accelerating the transition to zero-emission school buses.

Requires owners of bulk oil or liquid fuels terminals to show they can pay for spills.

NOTE – MCAT has taken a position IN OPPOSITION to this bill! Prohibits the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality from implementing its regulations on zero emissions trucks, until January 1, 2027.

Creates a ballot measure that, if passed, creates a new state right to a healthy environment