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Department of Environmental Quality

Testify to Stop Port Westward Refinery 

April 28, 2022April 25, 2022 by Diana Meisenhelter
Image of a port in the lower Columbia River

 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.

Tags Department of Environmental Quality, Diesel, Global Partners, greenhouse gas emissions, Pollution, Port Westward, Refinery

Oregon Environmental Quality Commission – Send Your Comments!

October 6, 2021 by XRPDX

By Diana Meisenhelter and Janet Weil The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission (EQC, who oversees DEQ) were tasked with writing the rules to implement the Governor’s call for … Read more

Tags Department of Environmental Quality, Oregon Environmental Quality Commission, State of Oregon

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