
Letter to Senate Committee on Environment and Energy
February 27, 2023 Senate Committee on Environment and EnergyOregon LegislatureSalem, Oregon Dear Committee…
Read Blog DetailFebruary 27, 2023 Senate Committee on Environment and EnergyOregon LegislatureSalem, Oregon Dear Committee…
Read Blog DetailEric Fruits, Ph.D.Vice President of ResearchCascade Policy Institute Support for HB 3002 re:…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. At the end of last year, the Oregon Environmental…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. On December 19, Oregon’s Environmental Quality Commission voted…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. My, how time flies. Just last month, I warned…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. ‘Tis the season for holiday wishes. And, toward that…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. First they banned styrofoam, then last week they banned…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. Portland is a world leader in magical thinking on…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. It’s the day after Election Day and the votes…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D “What’s the one thing you’d do to fix Oregon?”…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is accepting…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. It seems everywhere you look, “clean energy” is in…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. It seems everywhere you look, “clean energy” is in…
Read Blog DetailBy Taylor Marks In 2014, Fire Station 21, located on SE Madison St….
Read Blog DetailBy Mia Tiwana Connecticut’s bus service just pulled its entire fleet of electric…
Read Blog DetailBy James Swyter and Mia Tiwana This month, Portland City Council approved $118…
Read Blog DetailBy Mia Tiwana Have you heard of the Portland Clean Energy Fund? Portlanders…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. Many Oregon politicians have convinced themselves that we…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. March 1, 2022Rosanne Powell, Senior Board ManagerPortland Public…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson Think the natural gas industry is dying? The latest data…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson The era of small-modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) is upon us,…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson Portland General Electric is living a virtual power plant pipe…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson Governor Kate Brown has joined other state and national representatives…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. With the retirement of Bob Stacey earlier this month,…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson Environmental groups including the Sierra Club and Western Resource Advocates…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. Politicians have a lot in common with magicians….
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson Did you just have an order for a desktop computer…
Read Blog Detail(Photo is a stock photo.) By Stew Robertson You would think Portland Parks…
Read Blog DetailJuly 9, 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact:John A. Charles, Jr.President & CEOCascade…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. President Biden is proposing to spend $174 billion…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson The race is on for a reliable power grid. A…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson Should we breach Northwest hydropower dams to replenish native fish…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson Oregon has always been a national leader in providing clean…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson Oregon is home to NuScale Power, the nation’s leading small…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson Should governments use taxpayer dollars to support select companies of…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson Recent freezing temperatures and power outages in both Oregon and…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. Oregonians blame Californians for many of our state’s woes….
Read Blog DetailBy Helen Doran What does an old industrial site from World War II…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Chalres. Jr. Every month when you pay your electricity bill,…
Read Blog DetailBy Vlad Yurlov Would you like to have a nice picnic near a…
Read Blog DetailBy John A Charles, Jr. and Rachel Dawson EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Oregon Public…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service estimates up to 500,000…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson On Thursday, October 15, Portland General Electric pulled the plug…
Read Blog DetailOctober 19, 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Rachel Dawson (503) 242-0900 [email protected]…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson Oregon’s very own NuScale Power, a company developing small-modular nuclear…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson Recent blackouts in California have demonstrated the need for reliable…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson California’s recent blackouts should serve as a warning to officials…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson Did you ever watch the Simpsons and think nuclear waste…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson After 42 years, the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA)…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson You may have noticed companies and public agencies using the…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson Despite the claims of environmentalists promoting wind and solar energy,…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson Oregon, it’s about time we talk about nuclear power. No,…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson Oregon’s Governor Kate Brown responded to the Republican walk-out and…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. Rarely has Oregon’s lack of political leadership been…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson Is Oregon meeting its 2020 greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson Oregon state officials recently celebrated helping the state reach 25,000…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson TriMet unveiled five new battery-electric buses (BEBs) in April 2019,…
Read Blog DetailBy Micah Perry Driving around Portland could get a lot more expensive. The…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson In January 2019 the City of Portland implemented a voter-approved…
Read Blog DetailBy Micah Perry Last fall, Portland voters approved a new 1% tax on…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. Portland politicians claim to be concerned about carbon…
Read Blog DetailBy Miranda Bonifield Oregon’s most pressing environmental crisis isn’t in forests or renewable…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. The Oregon legislature is expected to pass a carbon cap-and-trade…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. Many Portland drivers probably wonder why there are…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. Governor Kate Brown has announced a legislative proposal…
Read Blog DetailBy Miranda Bonifield What’s the deal with plastic straws? Heartbreaking images of sea…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. Relying on computer models to predict the future…
Read Blog DetailTestimony of John A. Charles, Jr. President & CEO, Cascade Policy Institute Regarding…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. The Oregon Legislature convened again this week. A…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. In November the regional government, Metro, released the…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. The most serious problem facing Oregon right now…
Read Blog DetailBy Lydia White Last week the Idaho Department of State Lands and the…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. President Trump made the right call last Thursday…
Read Blog DetailFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: John A. Charles, Jr. (503) 242-0900 PORTLAND, Ore….
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. Recently the Oregon Legislature held a hearing on…
Read Blog DetailBy Allison Coleman Over the past two decades there has been a large…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. and Lydia White The Sierra Club and other…
Read Blog DetailBy Allison Coleman In 2009 the regional transit agency, TriMet, opened a commuter…
Read Blog DetailBy Allison Coleman In 2001, the Portland City Council declared that by 2010,…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. Oregon’s free-market research center, Cascade Policy Institute, celebrated…
Read Blog DetailBy Lydia White In accordance with House Bill 2941, the Public Utilities Commission…
Read Blog DetailPortland is one of seven cities still in the running for a $50…
Read Blog DetailThe Portland Public School board recently voted to prohibit textbooks or classroom materials…
Read Blog DetailIn the recently concluded session of the Oregon legislature, the big environmental “win”…
Read Blog DetailOregon’s electricity ratepayers are supposed to be protected from monopolistic electric utilities by…
Read Blog DetailTwo committees of the Oregon Legislature will hear presentations this week on a…
Read Blog DetailThe Portland Sustainability Commission recently recommended that the City Council approve a $500…
Read Blog DetailA new report released by Cascade Policy Institute concludes that the public-private partnership…
Read Blog DetailPORTLAND, Ore. – A new report released by Cascade Policy Institute concludes that…
Read Blog DetailMany politicians on the West Coast have fallen in love with untested policies and programs they say will help solve global warming. Many of these policies are mind-bogglingly complicated. What, after all, is a low carbon fuel standard (LCFS), or clean fuels program? And how exactly do programs like “cap and trade” work? And, perhaps most importantly, how do these policies impact you, the consumer?
Read Blog DetailPORTLAND, Ore. – Cascade Policy Institute issued a report today, questioning the legality of renewable energy…
Read Blog DetailBy William Newell The decisions we make are often greatly influenced by the…
Read Blog DetailBy William Newell In February, the Oregon Legislature passed House Bill 4126. This…
Read Blog DetailBy William Newell The 2013 North American World Environment Day opened with a…
Read Blog DetailBy Todd Myers “The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change raises the level…
Read Blog DetailIn previous decades the Portland region failed to meet national air quality standards…
Read Blog DetailBy William Newell Since 2001 the City of Portland has aimed to obtain…
Read Blog DetailThe Energy Trust of Oregon (ETO) is a non-profit organization that carries out…
Read Blog DetailIf some Portlanders are confused about why we have a 19th century trolley…
Read Blog DetailRecently, Mayor Charlie Hales gave a speech welcoming out-of-town dignitaries visiting Portland as…
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