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But the Secretary of State’s elections division last week rejected the initiatives proposed by environmental advocates, including the group Oregon Wild, saying they related to more than one subject.
Frustrated by legislative inaction in a state where timber gives more to lawmakers than anywhere else, environmental groups led by Oregon Wild pushed three ballot initiatives this year to tighten ...
Stymied in their efforts to get Oregon’s legislature to pass H.B. 2020, a statewide cap-and-trade bill, environmental groups are pushing to place before the voters in November 2020 three ballot ...
The Oregon Forest Industries Council, a timber industry trade group, is serving as treasurer of the campaigns. Environmental groups filed three ballot measures earlier this year to tighten aerial ...
The Oregon Climate ... or caring about the environmental impact. The commission approved $750,000 for the Oregon Agricultural Heritage Program — an initiative through the Oregon Watershed ...
A pair of clean-energy ballot initiatives were ... pattern of her siding against environmental interests. She previously rejected three petitions from the group Oregon Wild that proposed adding ...
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality awarded $1.2 ... City of Bend Beyond Plastics Deschutes County “This initiative, allowing consumers to purchase reusable containers and exchange ...
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality ... contracts needed to advance equity and inclusion, and environmental justice initiatives. The $6.5 million “represents requested investments ...
Lawmakers have proposed additional measures, Senate Bills 543 and ... SB 544 serves a similar purpose, and would direct the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission to launch a program that would ...
Around 100 public transit and environmental advocates descended on the Oregon State Capitol on Thursday ... and other climate-friendly transportation initiatives around the state.
Given Oregon’s green reputation, it’s jarring to see how badly the state ranks on measures of injustice in exposure to air pollution. Environmental engineering professor Julian Marshall and colleagues ...
SJR 28 would refer a ballot measure to Oregon voters in November that would guarantee residents the right to a clean, safe, and healthy environment. If passed in the Oregon Legislature and then by ...