Category: Oregon Legislation

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

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 electric companies to develop programs for expanding distributed power plants

Updates state goals for achieving greenhouse gas emissions reduction

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

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

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

Streamline regulations to enable faster and simpler transmission planning.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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