Relating to Extinction Rebellion US 4 Demands.
The Climate Protection Program (CPP) aims to reduce 90% of harmful emissions from the state’s largest polluters by 2050. Implementation of the CPP was delayed for three years on a technicality following a suit by oil and … Read more
Thanks to the good work of Breach Collective and several journalists, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests proved that the City of Portland was in conversations with Zenith Energy through the summer and fall of … Read more
Join in solidarity with youth around our planet striking for climate justice on September 15. Strikes are planned in Bend, Eugene, Salem, and Portland. Everyone is invited to join youth in the streets. In Bend: Climate Strike … Read more
And put up a parking lot (for luxury condos) Heat islands, especially in lower income areas like outer SE Portland, added to the death toll from the last heat dome. Heat islands are caused and … Read more
Secure risk bonding so that Zenith Energy does not profit from our endangerment and leave the residents of Portland, Multnomah County, and Oregon to pay for the immense costs of a disaster
I strongly urge you to meet with people from the climate justice activist community and especially from the youth activists. There are many very well informed, strong climate activists who are still in High School. Meet with them, and really, really listen to them. Your predecessor failed in this area…
“…to the blasts of recorded “breaking news” about transforming the CEI Hub to a place of beauty, we showed first the “Doom” sides, then the “Bloom” sides. A visually powerful moment of transformation. As Patti called out details of Zenith’s ugly history of deception and expansion, we chanted our demand at each point on the timeline: “Why are they still here?!”
We implore the City of Portland to not only meet the IPCC requirements, but to exceed them, through concrete policy laid out here and implemented by a future director…
XRPDX supports PCEF and will pressure the City not to concede to the demands of the business community.
“Like so many Native communities on the frontlines of environmental racism, those near Thacker Pass have been railroaded in the name of Big Extraction.”