2007: Climate Change Integration Act

A partial fix to Measure 39’s rollback of statewide land use planning.

The task force advises state agencies on how to protect all communities from pollution, enact laws equitably, and involve traditionally under-represented communities in agency actions. Helped secure Environmental Protection Agency regulations for the Northwest that have reduced benzene in gasoline by approximately 70%.

Which provided taxpayer money to companies simply for their compliance with environmental laws.

Two years ago, Governor Kate Brown made history when she signed the Oregon Climate Action Plan (OCAP), executive order 20-04. It’s the largest executive action on climate in Oregon history, and arguably the biggest single climate action ever undertaken by the state given its broad sweep. OCAP set in motion a broad array of state agency activities to respond to the climate crisis by reducing climate emissions from our state’s largest polluting sec