2025 Legislative Session

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

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

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

Directs Oregon’s Public Utility Commission to regulate electric utilities under a new framework that better reflects the public interest.

Expands the allowable uses of the Seismic Risk Mitigation Fund by state agencies.

Creates a Task Force to study the possibility of establishing a public state bank

Directs the Oregon Treasury to enact a five year moratorium on acquiring or renewing funds that invest primarily in fossil fuels.

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

Requires DEQ to study whether bonds should be imposed on operators of fuel facilities.

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

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

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

Sets a limit on the maximum size of community solar projects, and updates the duties of electric utilities with respect to these projects.

Requires large fossil fuel companies to pay retroactive damages caused by anthropogenic climate change.

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

Change regulations to enable faster and simpler transmission planning.

Establish an Oregon Electric Transmission Authority to coordinate planning for the state electricity grid.

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

Legislative memorial to federal authorities regarding Bonneville Power Authority