Author: MCAT

April 7, 2025 To: Representative Susan McLain, Co-Chair of the JCTSenator Chris Gorsek, Co-Chair of the JCTCc: Senator Rob Wagner, President of the SenateRepresentative Julie Fahey, Speaker of the House Re: Support for Increased Transit Funding in the 2025 Transportation Package Needed to Avoid Service Cuts We, the undersigned organizations, urge you to increase the […]

March 7, 2025 Representative John Lively, ChairmanHouse Committee On Climate, Energy and EnvironmentOregon State Capitol900 Court St. NE, Salem Oregon 97301 Dear Chair Lively, Vice-chairs Bobby Levy and Gamba and members of the committee: On behalf of Oregon Environmental Council and the organizations listed below, I write to express our strong opposition to House Bill […]

January 21, 2025Oregon Public Utility Commission201 High Street SE, Suite 100Salem, OR 97301-3398 Delivered via email to: [email protected] RE: UM 1696 – Comments supporting Staff’s recommendation to approve major cost-effectiveness exceptions for multiple heat pump measures, as requested by Energy Trust of Oregon. The Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School (GEI), Community […]

BY PAT DELAQUIL and JOHN PERONA Feb 11, 2025 A recent guest column in the Bulletin used a story — that the city of Bend might regulate natural gas hookups for new residential construction as one way of achieving its climate goals — to speculate on the ability of the Northwest’s electricity grid to meet […]

Re: UM 2348 – Investigation into Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) and Request for Proposals (RFP) Modernization – Comments on Workshop #3