You can read a good summary of the issue here by the good folks at the Oregon Citizens Utility Board. I just left this comment, which they are holding in a queue somewhere:
Not to mention, the public power coops in Oregon all fought like hell to get exempted from or weaken the renewable [...]

Lane County Transit District
For the second year in a row (the only ones I’ve been paying close attention to) bus ridership in Eugene has increased by over ten percent, 10.4 percent this year. Part of the increase might be attributed to the EmX (pronounced Em-Ex) route between Eugene and Springfield. EmX buses are big, [...]

Folks trying to cage subsidies for their preferred response to peak oil (i.e., biofuels, as in Oregon’s HB 2210) should take a good long look at this story and read the linked stories.
Because this is where playing the subsidy game leads: with a river of money going to the most powerful, rather than the most [...]

The main issue in planning our response to peak oil, it seems to me, is determining how to best use the abundant oil we have while it is still abundant, and staving off any attempt to shift to liquid fuels produced from coal.
Thus, it appears that the issue, in practical terms, is whether [...]

Sam Smith writes from DC, but there is much food for thought here for Oregonians.
CITIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Sam Smith
BURIED IN a NY Times update on the ecologically conscious city of Curitiba Brazil is an oft-ignored lesson for environmentalists: don’t listen too hard to planners, politicians and business groups about how to improve cities. Few of [...]

A nice discussion on biofuels with links to important resources.
I was going to drop this link under JD’s “Retro Dynamics” but I’m afraid that is starting to seem like a closed exchange between two OO bloggers, and it’s a discussion that should be much more diverse. So I’d like to raise the profile of the [...]

BlueOregon reports that the “open primary” bill (SB 630) got killed in the Senate yesterday, so that’s a clear victory. The Louisiana primary system is a truly horrible idea; of all the things you might want to import from Louisiana, their politics would be right down there at the end of [...]

If you are served by an electric coop in Oregon, then WE NEED YOU — because your locally owned and operated coop is, in all probability, trying to destroy the state’s best hope for an intelligent response to both climate change and energy resource depletion.
Basically, SB 838, which calls for Oregon to get 25% of [...]

Excelsiors (Onward Oregonians sounds to awkward, so I think I’ll just call us all “Excelsiors”):
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More proof, as if we needed more, that even the most intelligent and personally upstanding folks, when submerged into an organizational structure such as a corporation can lose all sense of morality and decency. The organization does things the individuals would abhor, and no one feels responsible, and only the profit motive is heard.
Please [...]