Category: Blog
MCAT Professor Rob Kugler (Transportation Team) pens LTE: Fossil Fuel Industry thwarts OCPP in courts
Your comments are needed! Please contact Professor Kugler at [email protected] for background and talking points to comment on this issue. https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2024/01/readers-respond-fossil-fuel-companies-should-pay.html
MCAT joins letter to US Forest Service Chief Moore with prominent national orgs: Old Growth Initiative
Along with many national climate organizations like Sierra Club and Earthjustice, MCAT has signed onto the following letter supporting the protection of Old Growth in our national forests.
MCAT General Mtg. & Legislative Update: 1/24 @ 6:30-8 PM
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MCAT supports funding for Fire & Water Safe Communities, Public Services
MCAT Inga Fisher Williams suggests interactive New York Times climate site:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/climate/climate-change-faq.html
Paulette Wittwer, MCAT, published LTE in Oregonian: Bentz Could Help Native Salmon.
MCAT Comments on Notice of Intent for the Northwest Forest Plan
MCATs join Divest Oregon for a Salem lobby day in support of the COAL Act.
MCATs joined Divest Oregon’s very successful lobby day building support and gathering new co-sponsors for Rep. Khanh Pham’s bill: The COAL Act, which would phase out out-of-state coal investments currently held in the Oregon State Treasury by 2030. For more information go to www.divestoregon.org
MCAT & Coalition send letter to Board of Forestry supporting Habitat Conservation Plan
MCAT & Coalition send letters to all OR Legislators warning about NW Natural’s Hydrogen Test Facilities
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Rand Schenck (MCAT Steering) to publish book in May: “Forest Under Seige”
Environmental activist Rand Schenck examines 100 years of Pacific Northwest forestry, through the lens of forestry practices on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. This volume offers his visceral perspective on the decades of stewardship, the period of relentless harvest, and the move toward the rebirth of old growth. As a boy, Rand Schenck hiked and backpacked in […]
Early January Newsletter
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The MCAT Offshore Wind Team is growing.
MCAT has a team working to help make this enormous opportunity a reality and we encourage you to join if you have an interest. Contact us! https://climatesolutions.salsalabs.org/offshorewind?wvpId=a4de6d5b-b211-4a69-9ec3-110b87515dc1
MCAT weighs in on tolling and transportation funding.
December Newsletter
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MCAT John Perona: comments on Red Trail Energy Tier 2 application for ethanol w carbon capture.
Joint letter to OR Global Warming Commission: Mature & Old Growth Trees
The Oregon Global Warming Commission, soon to be renamed the Oregon Climate Action Commission has received a report from the OSU based Institute for Natural Resources on how to get the most from natural climate solutions. While the report highlights the need to improve forest management it does not specify what that means. In particular […]
LC 80, Round 2 Comments on PGE’s Clean Energy Plan and IRP by Energy Advocates
MCAT letter to DEQ & Kotek re: Zenith Land Use Reversal
The MCAT Steering Committee shares with other organizations their concern about the method in which Portland’s City Council reversed their decision on Zenith’s Land Use Compatibility Statement (LUCS). MCAT believes that their 2022 decision violates good faith and public process.
Bonneville Power needs to produce 100% Clean Energy
Bonneville Power Administration is the source of 28% of the Pacific Northwest’s electricity. They have recently produced their 2024-2028 Strategic Plan without allowing an opportunity for public comment. Although the Plan supports movement toward carbon-free sources of electricity for the 34 public utilities in Oregon who rely on BPA, it does not provide them with […]
MCAT General Meeting 11/8 @ 6:30 PM ZOOM
Jane Stackhouse: LTE on GTN Xpress in Oregonian
https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2023/10/readers-respond-pipeline-expansion-bad-for-climate.html Thank you to Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden for opposing the expansion of the Gas Transmission Northwest natural gas pipeline, (“Feds OK natural gas pipeline expansion in Pacific Northwest over environmentalist protests,” Oct. 19). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change informs us that the fastest way to decrease the amount of greenhouse gases […]
November Newsletter
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