Fossil fuel companies, farms, unions and business groups are taking the state Department of Environmental Quality to court over a program they call “economically infeasible.”
This is absolutely something that should have been done via legislation, not executive order.
And all that money being collected from gas companies in taxes/fees? Not being administered by the government, not accountable in any way, just being funneled all to a single non-profit: “Seeding Justice” , a “Portland-based nonprofit that deals in social, racial and environmental justice”. Which I’m sure has no ties to Kotek, none at all. Estimated to be over $150M.
Their list of grants they have handed out looks like it’s straight out of a Tucker Carlson monologue about crazy things “the woke marxist left” is doing. One of my favorite lines was a grant for “full-spectrum doula training specific to sex workers”. Stuff like this is red meat for Oregon conservatives.
This is absolutely something that should have been done via legislation, not executive order.
And all that money being collected from gas companies in taxes/fees? Not being administered by the government, not accountable in any way, just being funneled all to a single non-profit: “Seeding Justice” , a “Portland-based nonprofit that deals in social, racial and environmental justice”. Which I’m sure has no ties to Kotek, none at all. Estimated to be over $150M.
Their list of grants they have handed out looks like it’s straight out of a Tucker Carlson monologue about crazy things “the woke marxist left” is doing. One of my favorite lines was a grant for “full-spectrum doula training specific to sex workers”. Stuff like this is red meat for Oregon conservatives.