Don't Let Polluters Write The Rules

Polluters shouldn't write Oregon's climate action rules. Send a message to the Environmental Quality Commission (EQC). Tell them to include more voices from frontline communities, scientists and health protectors!

Polluters shouldn't write Oregon's climate action rules. Send a message to the Environmental Quality Commission (EQC). Tell them to include more voices from frontline communities, scientists and health protectors!

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Oregon's Environmental Quality Commission (EQC) recently appointed a committee composed mostly of corporate lobbyists to help write the rules for the new Cap & Reduce climate protection program. Tell the EQC that's not acceptable. Scientists, health experts, and people harmed by pollution should be helping write the rules, not polluters!

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Commissioners,

As an Oregonian, I’m counting on you to be bold. The year ahead is a consequential one for Oregon’s efforts to combat climate change. You have a tremendous responsibility as the Oregon Climate Action Plan (executive order 20-04) is put into practice. Years of delay on climate action means we must take even larger steps away from the polluting status quo in each year to come.

I’m disappointed by recent decisions of the Environmental Quality Commission regarding the Cap & Reduce program. The selection of a Rules Advisory Committee (RAC) represents the values and outcomes you hope to see. The seating of a majority of polluting industry voices over those who are harmed by their pollution is a step in the wrong direction. There is no reason oil and gas representatives should outnumber the voices of frontline communities, environmental protectors, public health experts or Tribes, and yet they do on the current RAC.

Oregonians overwhelmingly support state action to reduce pollution quickly and, in public comments, supporters vastly outnumbered those seeking to delay and dilute the rules of this program.

Two recent additions of vocal opponents of pollution reduction programs, the Oregon Trucking Association and a chapter of the Oregon Wheat Growers, adds insult to injury while adding no additional voices of those seeking to protect public health and communities harmed by pollution. At the very least, the RAC should be returned to its original number of seats and, if the advice of these groups is deemed valuable, replace other industry voices to seat them.

It’s well documented that pollution has a historical and ongoing disproportionate impact on Black, Indigenous, Tribal, and people of color in Oregon and across the country. To right these historic wrongs, the immeasurable damage to health and prosperity, there should be full and fair representation for BIPOC advocates, and yet industry voices outweigh them on this RAC.

Looking ahead to work on Cap & Reduce in 2021, please do all in your power to direct rulemaking to achieve:

1) Early, significant reductions in greenhouse gas pollution in the next decade that put us on the path to at least achieve the mandatory state targets for reducing climate pollution.

2) No exceptions or exemptions for any sector or industry, including fossil fuel natural gas burning power plants in Oregon.

3) Frontline communities, such as Black, Indigenous, Tribal, and communities of color, as well as low-income communities must be front and center in decision-making and program outcomes.

We, and future generations of Oregonians, are counting on you.

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