According to OPB.org, Milwaukie is the first city in Oregon to declare a Climate Emergency. Members of the Climate Mobilization Project are collecting signatures on our petition to encourage the Josephine County Commissioners, the Grants Pass City Council, and the Cave Junction City Council to develop Climate Emergency Plans of their own. Look for us […]
The Environmental Caucus will be gathering signatures on our petition at two upcoming events. The purpose of our petition is to encourage the Josephine County Commissioners, the Grants Pass City Council, and the Cave Junction City Council to declare a Climate Emergency and develop Climate Emergency Programs to do their part to reduce or eliminate […]
Pembina has withdrawn their application for a permit to dredge Coos Bay in preparation for their planned Jordan Cove LNG Terminal. What, on the surface, appears to be great news may just be another tactic by Pembina to get around providing information detrimental to the advancement of this project. For more information go to the […]
Come to the Fry Family Farm in Medford to hear a presentation by Oregon Climate and Agriculture Network (OrCAN) and Southern Oregon Climate Action Now (SOCAN) on Climate and Agriculture in the Legislature. The presentation will be from 4:00 to 5:30 pm on Friday, January 24, 2020. When Oregon lawmakers convene in February of 2020 […]
Climate change is not a looming threat, it is already in progress. It affects us now with changing weather patterns, adverse weather events becoming more frequent and more severe, increased wildfires, sea levels rising, and ocean waters becoming warmer and more acidic. As greenhouse gasses are released into the atmosphere the effects on our planet […]
I want to share with you a message of thank you from Rogue Climate to all of you who submitted comments opposing the Jordan Cove Terminal and the Pacific Connector LNG Pipeline. “Dear [concerned citizen], More than 42,000 Oregonians attended a hearing or submitted comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) urging them to […]
This cap and trade bill will have a very positive impact on getting greenhouse gases under control in Oregon. This is a big step toward slowing down climate change. Email your State Representative now and implore him, or her, to vote yes on HB2020. It doesn’t matter whether he is a Democrat or a Republican, […]
Please consider sending a note of encouragement to Democratic party members of the State Joint House Ways and Means committee urging them to support HB2020 as it emerged from the Natural Resources sub-committee and reject the amendment from Betsy Johnson that would weaken it substantially. If we are serious about addressing this problem, we cannot […]
On June 4, 2019, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced hearing dates in Southern Oregon on the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal and Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline. These hearings are critical to show the federal government that our communities want a transition to clean energy, not a fracked gas pipeline and export terminal, […]
