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How to Sell a Carbon Tax. And Not In Oregon, conservative politicians literally run and hide from carbon pricing. How did BC’s similar party make it law? Erik Neumann Today | Jefferson Public Radio / InvestigateWest Erik Neumann is a radio producer and writer. The story was published as partner of a partnership with InvestigateWest. SHARES A man holding a sign opposing Oregon’s climate bill talks to fellow rallygoers from the roof of a truck at an event on th...

Originally published on May 10, 2021 4:55 am In 2019 and again in 2020, Oregon Republicans walked out of the state Legislature to prevent a vote on cap-and-trade climate bills. The legislation was meant to drive down the state’s carbon emissions, but Republicans feared the bills would place the greatest burden of higher fuel prices on sparsely populated rural communities. In 2008, the center-right party in British Columbia, actually named the Liberal Party, created a carbon tax to reduce em...

Oregon Democrats try to learn from British Columbia’s carbon tax B.C.’s tax was backed by conservatives and cut emissions without harming rural communities. Can it work elsewhere? by A man on stilts wears state of Jefferson regalia at a Timber Unity rally in front of the Oregon Capitol in Salem, Feb. 6, 2020. (Bradley W. Parks/OPB) This report is contributed by Jefferson Public Radio, a partner in Getting to Zero, InvestigateWest’s yearlong  reporting initiative. In 2019 and again in 2...

 Dissident Voice: here and here. I even did a review of that documentary,  The People VS Agent Orange, which highlights Tran To Nga‘s fight in France — “Eternal Impunity of Capitalism’s Crimes“. Here’s one passage from that story I wrote: Dr. James Clary was with the Air Force in Vietnam, which ran the program. He was ordered to dump the computer and erase all memory. Instead, he printed out a stack of documents two feet high – missions, sorties, coordinates, dates, gallons d...

Can Oregon Democrats learn from B.C.’s carbon tax? By ERIK NEUMANNMay 12, 2021 GMT In 2019 and again in 2020, Oregon Republicans walked out of the state Legislature to prevent a vote on cap-and-trade climate bills. The legislation was meant to drive down the state’s carbon emissions, but Republicans feared the bills would place the greatest burden of higher fuel prices on sparsely populated rural communities. In 2008, the center-right party in British Columbia, actually named the Liberal P...

Home » Environment » Decarbonizing Cascadia » Can Oregon Democrats learn from B.C.’s conservative-backed carbon tax? After two years of defeat in Salem, carbon pricing still lacks support from business and rural interests. This report is contributed by Jefferson Public Radio, a partner in Getting to Zero, InvestigateWest’s yearlong reporting initiative. In 2019 and again in 2020, Oregon Republicans walked out of the state Legislature to prevent a vote on   cap and trade  climate bills...

Letters to the editor for Friday, April 30: NIMBYs and YIMBYs, gun control and Ceces plight Register-Guard 1KF’s manufactured fight for justice  I appreciated Kimberly O’Brien’s letter (Letters, April 24) calling for the Timber Unity organization to be accurately characterized as the “political influencing, lobbying and money-raising organization that it is.” Timber Unity has no truck for “unity” around credible, evidence-based climate science.  We should also...

Replanting and rebuilding efforts in the wake of last years wildfire in the McKenzie River Valley got another helping hand Sunday in the form of cash and seedling donations. Timber Unity, a natural resources industries activism organization, donated 2,700 seedlings of various species and $7,000 on Sunday to fund a mobile tool library for those rebuilding after the Holiday Farm Fire. Timber Unity has made many such donations across the state since the fires, including funding the creation a ...

By Brian Cameron, for the Tillamook County Pioneer When the term ‘divisiveness’ gets brought up these days it’s hard not to immediately segue into current affairs. Indeed, there is a lot to be said, by everyone. It’s true that it can be easier to respond to opposing views with a quippy meme on social media, but when it comes down to opening up the narrative it’s best to get it straight from the source. Recently I had an opportunity to do just that with a chance to hear from our local...

collaboration. In October 2019, New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland led a House subcommittee hearing on the effects of anti-government extremism on federal land management officials. The Government Accountability Office had recently documented more than 350 incidents of threats and assaults targeting land management employees between 2013 and 2017. As the watchdog group noted, even that data did not capture the full picture, in part because not all incidents are reported. Some officials told investiga...