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Jeremiah Baumann
Advocate
(503) 231-1986
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Background:

Jeremiah Baumann is the program director for Environment Oregon. A native of Billings, Montana, who grew up in Pasco, Washington, Jeremiah joined Environment Oregon's staff in the spring of 2005 after working on the national staff of the Student PIRGs' New Voters Project, where he directed strategic planning and non-student outreach efforts for the project to increase voter turnout among 18-24-year-olds. Jeremiah joined U.S. PIRG in 1998 as an environmental associate in Washington, DC. As director of U.S. PIRG’s federal Toxics and Environmental Health program from 2000 to 2003, he directed successful campaigns to expand toxics right-to-know programs and, in the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, launched a campaign to make communities safer from potential terrorist activity by requiring chemical companies to adopt safer chemicals and processes. Since starting at Environment Oregon, Jeremiah has directed successful efforts to adopt Oregon’s Clean Cars program, to cut global warming pollution from new cars and trucks 30% by 2016, and to establish one of the country’s strongest renewable energy standards, requiring 25% renewable energy by 2025. He currently directs Environment Oregon’s efforts to establish a mandatory cap on global warming pollution and to create the first network of marine reserves and protected areas off the Oregon coast. Jeremiah serves on the governor’s Energy Efficiency Working Group and the Transportation & Land Use Committee of the Oregon Global Warming Commission, and co-chairs a task force on air emissions from agriculture facilities. Mr. Baumann is a graduate of Yale University.