Issue Position: Climate

Issue Position

What I Believe:
Our slow response to climate change betrays our children and their children.

Shifting away from dirty fossil fuels to a clean economy isn't just a moral imperative; it is one of the greatest opportunities to create family-wage jobs in our lifetime.

In partnership with other western states taking action on climate, Oregon can show the world that slashing emissions is good for the economy.

Action We Need:
Passage of the Clean Energy Jobs Bill, to FINALLY make the fossil fuel industry pay its own way, stimulate family-wage job growth
Ensure Oregon's Clean Fuels program keeps reducing the carbon intensity of fuels at a rapid rate
Support public transportation infrastructure that better serves the public and plans for growth
Stop making it worse. Oppose plans to invest in dying fossil-fuel infrastructure, especially the Jordan Cove/Pacific Connector fracked-gas pipeline in Southern Oregon

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