US EditionOregon lawmakers look to reshape cap-and-trade program to pay for transportation needs
- Oregon lawmakers in 2025 are reviving efforts to implement a cap-and-trade system to fund transportation and wildfire prevention across the state.
- This renewed effort follows previous failed cap-and-trade bills in 2019 and 2020 that were blocked by Republican walkouts and industry opposition.
- The proposed system would replace Oregon's current Climate Protection Program with a market-based emissions allowance program modeled after those in Washington and California.
- Democratic co-chairs Chris Gorsek and Susan McLain indicated that revenue raised through gas and diesel providers might be allocated to road improvements, wildfire prevention, public transit, and nonprofit organizations.
- Despite some industry and utility support and the possibility of new revenue, political uncertainty remains with only weeks before Oregon's June 29 legislative adjournment.
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Backlash erupts after city greenlights massive private jet campus at airport: 'Will further degrade the public health ...'
The approval of a 13-acre private jet campus in Oregon has drawn the ire of climate activists. In April, the Port of Portland Commission approved a 35-year lease agreement with HIO Development LLC to construct a hub for private jets at the Hillsboro Airport in Oregon. The $45 million agreement also comes with an optional 10-year extension that could keep the hub around until at least 2070. As the Forest Grove News Times reported, the developme…
Oregon lawmakers look to reshape cap-and-trade program to pay for transportation needs
As Oregon lawmakers scrounge for ways to pay for hundreds of millions in transportation needs, they’ve dug up a new twist on an old plan: allowing polluters to buy and trade carbon credits. In a memo to House and Senate…
Oregon lawmakers revive controversial effort to implement cap-and-trade system
A key group of lawmakers have proposed that Oregon shift to a market-based emissions allowance system that could fundamentally alter the state’s regulation of companies that emit pollution in order to help fund two of the Legislature’s top priorities this session.
Advocates in shock as Dems float 'cap and pave' plan while funding bill remains secret
(Photo: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland) With just five weeks remaining in the 2025 legislative session, lawmakers have yet to unveil the details of a transportation funding package. This delay was brought into even sharper focus when the two co-chairs of the committee the bill is being crafted in released a memo Thursday with an update on their progress. Among the list of items leaders of the Joint Committee on Transportation Reinvestment (TRIP) upd…
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