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| 10/24/2005 | |
| PORTLAND, OR (2005-10-24) (Oregon Considered) - One of the key planks in Governor Ted Kulongoski's global warming strategy is getting Oregon to adopt California's new vehicle emission standards. | |
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PDX Mercedes dealer picketed over emission standards opposition
- Associated Press
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10/15/2005 |
| Protesters planned demonstrations Saturday outside the Mercedes-Benz dealership of Portland. | |
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| 10/11/2005 | |
| SALEM — While some governors around the country are switching to more fuel-efficient cars, Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski is going to stay with a large black Lincoln Town Car as his official ride. | |
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Study: Requiring cleaner cars could reduce greenhouse gases
- The Associated Press
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10/05/2005 |
| EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Oregon-produced greenhouse gases could decline by about 12 percent within the next 15 years if a Democratically-backed move to require cleaner cars can survive a legal challenge by Republicans, according to a new study. | |
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Report: New rules will slash car pollution
- The Register-Guard
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10/05/2005 |
| Oregon's move to require cleaner cars will reduce greenhouse gases in the state by about 12 percent by 2020 - assuming that the effort survives a legal challenge by Republican lawmakers and automakers, a new report estimates. | |
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| 10/05/2005 | |
| Deanna Garcia commutes to Albany from Salem in what she describes as a "boat." Garcia, 28, knows her large sedan isn't fuel-efficient and contributes to global warming, but when she looked into buying a new car with California's stricter emission standards, it was an extra $400. | |
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Kulongoski tightens auto standards
- Statesman Journal
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08/30/2005 |
| Gov. Ted Kulongoski on Monday put Oregon on the road to cleaner-burning vehicles -- and a clash with the auto industry -- by ordering stiffer pollution controls for new cars sold in the state after 2008. | |
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Veto Makes Way for Tougher Emission Standards
- Oregon Public Broadcasting
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08/29/2005 |
| PORTLAND, OR (Oregon Considered) - California is adopting tough new tailpipe emissions standards aimed at combating global warming. | |
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New Fuel Standards Stop Short, Environmentalists Say
- The NewStandard
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08/26/2005 |
| This week, the Bush administration moved to improve the mileage of some popular types of automobiles, but groups that have been pushing for years to make cars go farther on a gallon of gas say this latest proposal is running on empty. | |
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| 08/25/2005 | |
| In three years, new car buyers in Oregon could see more vehicles with cleaner engines and better gas mileage -- and higher prices -- if Gov. Ted Kulongoski succeeds in adopting California's tougher tailpipe emission standards. | |
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| 08/24/2005 | |
| George Taylor shouldn't scare anybody. He has been a vegetarian since the 1970s. He commutes to work by bicycle. He's an ex-hippie and an ex-surfer. He recycles. He likes trees and salmon. | |
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We Brake For Efficiency
- Tompaine.com (new window)
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08/10/2005 |
| In the 1,725 pages of the energy bill enacted by Congress and signed by President Bush, you won’t find acknowledgment of—let alone a plan to address—one of the world’s top energy-related challenges: global warming triggered by fossil fuel consumption. | |
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We Brake For Efficiency
- Tompaine.com
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08/10/2005 |
| Rob Sargent is the senior energy policy analyst for the National Association of State Public Interest Research Groups (State PIRGs). Jeremiah Baumann is the energy advocate for the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG). | |
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| 08/08/2005 | |
| The auto industry lobby and its defenders in the Legislature left a hit-and-run victim behind in their reckless drive to head off new vehicle emission standards in Oregon and Washington. | |
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Draw a line on energy bill
- The Oregonian
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08/08/2005 |
| Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., deserves applause for standing up against the energy bill that just passed Congress, and which David Sarasohn rightly skewered in his Aug. 3 column, "An energy bill that doesn't see a problem." | |
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Senate squashes cleaner-car effort
- The Oregonian
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07/30/2005 |
| Oregon has a long history of forward thinking on issues of sustainability. | |
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High Desert global warming debate heats up
- ktvz.com (new window)
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07/26/2007 |
| No matter what side you are on in the debate over global warming, or if you're undecided like many, there is no arguing the fact the debate itself is as heated as ever, and the High Desert is no exception. At a press conference this week in Bend, the group Environment Oregon said scientists are sounding alarm bells about the impacts of continued global warming. | |
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It's been a hotter century so far
- Mail Tribune (new window)
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07/25/2007 |
| If you think the Medford area seems warmer since the turn of the century, it isn't just your imagination heating up. The local average temperature from 2000 through 2006 was above normal by the biggest margin  1.7 degrees  of the seven Oregon sites studied, according to research released Tuesday by the Portland-based Environment Oregon Research & Policy Center. | |
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Hot Time in the Cities
- wweek.com (new window)
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07/24/2007 |
| Get ready to start peeling off those layers. Portland's summer of 2006 was one of the hottest ever recorded, according to researchers at Environment Oregon, who predicted more of the same at the unveiling of a new climate change report at the Rose Garden in Southwest Portland's Washington Park. | |
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Hotter NW Summers Consistent With Global Warming
- OPB (new window)
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07/24/2007 |
| PORTLAND, OR 2007-07-24 A new study of temperature trends by an Oregon environmental group shows that the Northwest is already sweating under the effects of climate change. The report, released Tuesday by the conservation arm of OSPIRG, shows that last year's hot summer is one of a number of national and regional indicators that the globe is indeed warming. Rob Manning took a look at the study, and has this report. | |
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Are you feeling the heat?
- KVAL (new window)
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07/24/2007 |
| Are you feeling the heat? Today Environment Oregon released a study saying Oregon's average temperature is heating up. Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy was on hand for the announcement which took place outside of Eugene City Hall. | |
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| 06/23/2006 | |
| If Oregon needed any more encouragement to join California and lead a national effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the National Academy of Sciences provided it Thursday. A panel of top climate scientists reported to Congress that the Earth is the hottest it has been in at least 400 years, probably even longer. | |
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| 06/23/2006 | |
| Oregon adopts tougher emissions rules to fight decades of pollution from older vehicles, but the price of cleaner air --and your next car --won't be cheap. | |
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Legislators take up bill to fight warming
- TheWorldLink.com (new window)
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04/29/2007 |
| SALEM (AP) - Pressure is mounting on Oregon lawmakers to take a lead on climate change issues as they consider bills to establish greenhouse gas emission reduction goals and statewide limits for pollution by electricity providers. | |
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Oregonians urge state to take lead climate change issues
- The Oregonian
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04/27/2007 |
| SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Pressure is mounting on Oregon lawmakers to take a lead on climate change issues as they consider bills to establish greenhouse gas emission reduction goals and statewide limits for pollution by electricity providers. | |
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| 04/04/2007 | |
| There's a powerful wind now at Oregon's back in its drive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming. The legal clouds are gone, blown away by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the federal government, and by extension the states, have the authority to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. | |
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| 04/03/2007 | |
| WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ordered the federal government on Monday to take a fresh look at regulating carbon dioxide emissions from cars, a rebuke to Bush administration policy on global warming. | |
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Oregon judge upholds clean-car decision
- The Seattle Times
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03/25/2006 |
| SALEM, Ore. — A judge Thursday upheld a move by Gov. Ted Kulongoski and Oregon environmental officials to adopt California's tough new vehicle-emission standards to reduce greenhouse gases. | |
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| 03/24/2006 | |
| A Marion County judge on Thursday upheld Gov. Ted Kulongoski's authority to push forward with stricter vehicle-emissions standards. | |
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Judge upholds governor on ‘clean car’ rules
- The Oregonian
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03/01/2006 |
| SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A judge Thursday upheld a move by Gov. Ted Kulongoski and Oregon environmental officials to adopt California's tough new vehicle emission standards to reduce greenhouse gases. | |
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