-
Ashland is moving forward with three proposals to restrict natural gas use in the city. They are part of a student-led effort to reduce the city’s carbon emissions.
-
As electric and gas rates continue to rise, an advocacy group for utility customers is proposing rate caps on energy increases for all for-profit utilities to help avoid high energy bills.
-
The California Assembly has approved legislation that would require new gas stoves to carry a label warning users about pollutants that have been linked to respiratory illnesses.
-
The Oregon Public Utilities Commission has now rejected all three of the state’s natural gas operators’ plans to meet greenhouse gas emission targets.
-
The Public Utilities Commission rejected all three plans, saying they were ‘unreasonably optimistic’ about future gas demand.
-
The landmark Climate Protection Program is effectively dead for the next year while state regulators redo the rulemaking and approval process.
-
The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that a procedural error in approving the Climate Protection Program invalidates the regulations.
-
Oregon’s second largest natural gas utility won’t be able to charge customers to pay for its political and lobbying activities and will have to decrease its proposed 2024 rate increase under a settlement agreement approved Thursday by the Oregon Public Utility Commission.
-
Federal officials have approved expansion of a natural gas pipeline that runs from British Columbia to the Oregon-California border.
-
The Oregon Court of Appeals heard arguments Friday from gas and oil companies seeking to overturn a cornerstone of the state’s climate strategy, while environmental and labor groups rallied in a show of support for the regulations.
-
The utility Avista, which provides natural gas to parts of Oregon, reached a settlement with climate groups on Thursday over proposed rate hikes for gas services.
-
A court case in California could hamstring efforts in Oregon and Washington to limit new natural gas connections, after an appeals court ruled in April that a city ordinance conflicted with federal law.
-
Eugene’s new ordinance banning natural gas hookups in new low-rise residential buildings would be put to a public vote, if organizers of a signature-gathering effort are successful.
-
Natural gas infrastructure will be banned in new low-rise residential buildings in Eugene.