Tell Lawmakers: Support a Luxury Vehicle Tax to Fund Trails and Electrification
With just two weeks left in the legislative session, we are pushing lawmakers to support a new, 4% tax on luxury vehicles over $75,000 to fund critical programs not currently included in the state’s transportation package. This change to the transportation package will enable needed clean vehicle investments to reduce emissions, protect public health, and support Oregon jobs.
Tell your legislators to support a new luxury vehicle tax to fund critical programs that are currently missing from the bill!
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Support Sustainable Groundwater Management in Oregon!
Effective groundwater quality management is crucial for ensuring clean, reliable water for millions of Oregonians, and countless ecosystems. But as things stand, our state lacks the means to manage it effectively. By making much-needed revisions to the 1989 Groundwater Quality Management Act, SB 1154 will improve the process of identifying and reducing groundwater contamination to keep this vital resource safe. Tell your legislators to support SB 1154, and promote sustainable groundwater management now and for generations to come!
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ACT! Fund a STRONG Climate Justice Budget for Oregon
Lawmakers are finalizing the state budget for the next two years. Now is the time to speak up for a strong Climate Justice Budget that protects the environment, uplifts communities, lowers energy bills, and creates clean energy jobs across the state. Use the form below to email your state legislators and urge them to invest in proven programs that deliver for Oregonians.
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Tell Lawmakers to Fund a Transportation Package For ALL Oregonians
Oregon is about to make some big transportation decisions that will affect us for decades. Unfortunately, lawmakers are starting from a framework that falls dramatically short on what we need. We need fair funding, accountability, and more robust investments in safety, transit, and pollution reduction.
Tell your legislators that the stakes are too high to settle for less.
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BREAKING: Polluters Push Oregon Backward on Clean Air, Public Health, and Climate Action
Today, Oregon’s Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule was delayed by two years. Predictably, oil and gas interests orchestrated a multi-state campaign to derail similar policies in other states. Their successful attacks now include Oregon’s ACT rules.
Oregon communities are already suffering from the devastating impacts of diesel pollution. This pollution contains 40 cancer-causing compounds, contributes to 176 premature deaths annually, and costs our state $2 billion in health impacts each year. In fact, 19 of Oregon’s 36 counties have diesel pollution high enough to ...
Pass Senate Bill 88: Get Junk Fees Out of Utility Bills
Oregonians are struggling with skyrocketing utility bills. At the same time, the state’s largest utilities have raised rates by almost 50% in just four years while making profits, and passing unnecessary costs on to consumers. Our utility bills are covering their costs for expensive lawyers, lobbyists, marketing, and industry association fees.
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Mid-Session Update: Tracking the Flow of Our Water Bills
We’re officially past the halfway point in this legislative session. After dozens of meetings with legislators, and hundreds of Oregonians contacting their representatives to speak up for the issues that matter most, this is a key moment when the fate of our bills – and the thousands of other bills that have been submitted – is determined.
Oregon’s 83rd Legislature must wrap up by June 29, 2025. However, there are also deadlines that bills must meet if they are to advance and become law. April 9 was one such deadline. Let’s break down where we are in the ...
Bikes, Trains, Buses, and Walkable Streets: The Future Oregonians Want
Today, 100+ Oregonians are rallying in Salem to deliver a message shared by more than a thousand during a legislative listening tour last summer – public and active transportation is equally important no matter where you live in Oregon.
The rally, hosted by an OEC partner coalition Move Oregon Forward, will focus on the state’s newly proposed transportation package while uplifting data collected during the legislative listening tour. That data paints a clear picture: 64% of Oregonians support more investments in public transportation.
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What is “Ways and Means,” Anyway?
Making laws is complicated – and that can be a good thing. Good public policy – which OEC has championed from the beginning – requires thinking through how a program will be carried out as well as what resources will be needed to make it successful. That’s why it’s a long, multi-step process requiring collaboration and thorough review from start to finish. (Read more about how ideas become law here).
At times during this process, public input is critical for a bill to become law. For bills that need funding, that time is now. We’ve made it easy for you to ...
Forever Chemicals in Oregon? Not If We Stop Them.
PFAS are called “forever chemicals” for a reason: once they’re in the environment, they stick around – causing harm for generations. This group of synthetic chemicals are added to products to deflect heat, grease, and water. But, instead of helping, these toxic chemicals are causing severe harm: raising cancer risks, disrupting hormones, causing neurodevelopmental effects in children, and endangering first responders, like firefighters, who protect our communities.
Right now, health issues from PFAS mirror the top two leading causes of death in our state: cancer ...
