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NWFPA Energy Efficiency Approach Recommended for Oregon |
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 The Oregon Global Warming Commission issued an official report containing its recommendations for reducing Oregon greenhouse gas emissions to the Oregon legislature and the governor. The report affirms the approach pioneered and advocated by NWFPA: focus on voluntary reductions in energy intensity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, rather than imposing governmental regulations on emissions.
The Commission has now formally recommended that Oregon's strategy for GHG reduction in the industrial sector center around voluntary energy intensity reduction - not regulation. NWFPA Energy Director Pam Barrow was instrumental in achieving this result.
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NW Capitol Insider - Issue Spotlight: Cap & Trade |
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 The still anemic economic recovery, the loss of manufacturing jobs, and the overall economic-growth-starved mood of voters nationwide are all contributing to a situation in which cap & trade proposals are now increasingly rare, and existing GHG regulatory programs are widely being reconsidered.
Oregon and Washington both successfully avoided statewide cap & trade laws during the hard-fought 2009 legislative sessions when NWFPA and its coalition partners worked to help block SB 80 in Oregon and HB 1819 in Washington, both comprehensive cap & trade programs.
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