Help up tell Governor Brown, DEQ, and the EQC that Oregon can’t expect to meet its climate goals by exempting the largest climate polluters from its emissions reduction program.
Stop Oregon’s Free Pass for Fracked Gas Polluters
Can you help us flood Gov. Brown and the Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ) offices with petitions denouncing DEQ’s proposal to exempt fracked gas power plants from greenhouse gas limits?
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DEQ is in the early stages of developing a new greenhouse gas emissions program. The goal: a major decrease in greenhouse gas emissions from the state’s largest stationary sources. Noticeably absent from the program: fracked gas power plants.
The six largest climate polluters in Oregon are fracked gas power plants. Yet DEQ plans to exempt these facilities from regulation under its so-called “Climate Protection Program.”
It gets worse. Although one of DEQ’s top priorities is to alleviate burdens on environmental justice communities, the agency isn’t currently planning to study the community level data that would identify what these specific burdens are.
Luckily, nothing is set in stone yet.
Help up tell Governor Brown and DEQ that Oregon can’t expect to meet its climate goals by giving a free pass to the largest climate polluters from its emissions reduction program. Nor can it expect to reduce environmental justice burdens without having a firm understanding of exactly what those burdens are.
Let’s work together to get Oregon back on track.
Stop Oregon’s Free Pass for Fracked Gas Polluters
