By Oregon Attorney General, Press Release Attorney General Dan Rayfield and a coalition of 20 other states and local governments sued the Trump administration today for weakening federal limits on mercury and other toxic pollutants released by coal and oil-fired power plants. The administration recently rolled back the 2024 Mercury […]

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, Three more business organizations have joined a lawsuit challenging Oregon’s first-in-the-nation law that forces companies to pay for recycling materials they sell. Oregon Business & Industry, the Northwest Grocery Association and Food Northwest filed paperwork to join the challenge to the Plastic Pollution and […]

By Oregon Association of Nurseries,   Great news: The Oregon nursery industry scored two big wins last week: The Oregon Legislature passed a budget reconciliation bill that contained $1.8 million to resurrect the Oregon Department of Agriculture’s Japanese beetle eradication program. The funding bill awaits Gov. Tina Kotek’s signature. Additionally, […]

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, This week, OFS sent a coalition letter to the Oregon Department of Energy, requesting an extension on the comment period for their proposed Oregon Greenhouse Gas Reduction Gap Measures. With no notice about this proposal and significant impacts to Oregon’s natural resource and manufacturing […]

By Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, Press Release, ROSEBURG, Ore. – ODFW is hosting turkey hunting workshops around the state in April for both youth and adults. If you’re a new hunter, or new to turkey hunting, consider joining us for a day of learning more about turkey hunting. […]

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, Amazon has offered $83 million to buy solar energy and storage in Eastern Oregon to power its data centers, but a state council needs to sign off on the deal before it’s finalized. The Sunstone project sold to Amazon in the Pine Gate Renewables […]

By Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici, Press Release, Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and U.S. Representative Andrea Salinas (OR-06) led their colleagues—including Senator Ron Wyden, Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), and Val Hoyle (OR-04)—in reintroducing the Soil Conservation And Regeneration Education (Soil CARE) Act. Their bicameral bill would create a […]

Legislative Update By Oregonians for Food and Shelter,   The Legislature managed to rebalance the biennial budget, albeit raising revenue by disallowing $311 million in new tax deductions for Oregon tax payers. They then limited the very tax credit they supported earlier in the month.   Democratic leadership also managed […]

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation A federal judge has rolled back the Trump administration’s plans for hydroelectric dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers that he says would have greatly harmed salmon already struggling to survive. According to The Oregonian/OregonLive, U.S. District Judge Michael Simon sided with Oregon, Native […]

Legislative Update By Oregonians for Food and Shelter,   The 2026 Legislative Session is entering its final week. It seems the legislature has figured out how it will dispense with the major (and most contentious) issues, paving the way for the final few days of floor votes followed by adjournment […]