Oregon Environmental Council

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And yet another example of big polluters putting profit over people: Yesterday, Oregon Business & Industry sued to overturn Oregon's landmark Climate Protection Program. OEC, and a large coalition of business, health, and environmental groups across the state, stand against the lawsuit and in full support of this essential program.

Read the full article from OPB — including a quote from OEC's Executive Director, Jana Gastellum — below:

Oregon’s ambitious greenhouse gas reduction program faces a fresh legal challenge Fossil fuel companies, farms, unions and business groups are taking the state Department of Environmental Quality to court over a program they call “economically infeasible.”