Oregon lawmakers passed a resolution agreeing that state natural resource policy should be informed by historical inequities and the needs of communities already confronting climate change. The Oregon Senate voted Wednesday to adopt Senate Concurrent Resolution 17, which calls for natural resource agencies to use an environmental justice framework in crafting policy. The resolution, brought at the request of local nonprofit Beyond Toxics, is meant to ensure input from communities affected by those state agencies' decisions. "This will be available for communities to use to talk to their local governments about what values they want to see their governments adopt and use to create practices and policies," said Beyond Toxics Executive Director Lisa Arkin.