Renewable Fuels? We Need Some Standards!
Renewable diesel is still diesel, with the known risks of spills, fires, seismic concerns and polluting emissions…
Diana Meisenhelter
Testimony re: City of Portland Climate Emergency Workplan
or both climate and public health, businesses and industry should not get off the hook for the next 10 years with no expected reductions in emissions
Let’s Stop Manchin’s Dirty Deal!
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, who receives the most fossil fuel monies of any senator or representative, will be presenting in September the so-called “permitting reform bill” which we in XRPDX are demanding that Senators … Read more
City Climate Emergency Workplan: Talking Points
What is labeled a “workplan” is a vaguely aspirational document, short on specifics. The CED first-year 2021 report was basically that as well; neither has resulted in concrete policies to reduce emissions. The City Council must create a Climate Emergency Commission…
Heat Week Speech: Mere Remembrance Is Not Enough
This is the memorial commitment we must make when lives are senselessly lost especially where there could have been prevention. Mere remembrance is not enough. We must do something — we must act!
The Heat Dome Inferno Monster Speaks!
Yep, as long as folks don’t get together and demand annual emission reductions then I’ve got it made in the shade, especially since this town is just filled with heat islands
Heat Week Action – June 27
Last June during the Heat Dome, 96 lives were lost in Oregon due to the extreme heat. The City Council has still not taken specific steps to reduce Portland’s greenhouse gas emissions. The latest International … Read more
Testify to Stop Port Westward Refinery
At 1.15 million tons of carbon pollution each year, the proposed renewable diesel refinery would be one of Oregon’s largest emitters of greenhouse gas pollution, mostly from fracked gas used to make hydrogen.
Extinction Rebellion US: Newly Structured!
After two years of work by activists from XR chapters across the country, a Members’ Assembly attended by 47 chapter representatives launched the new national structure for XR US. Participants discussed the types of support chapters need, campaign ideas … Read more
Zenith: LUBA Decides, Climate Activists Rally
On Friday, February 4, XRPDX folks and other climate activists issued an Eviction Notice to Zenith in a lively rally.