Portland City Council will consider approving an accelerated funding timeline Wednesday for a new program to protect vulnerable Portlanders during the next heatwave. According to the Portland Clean Energy Fund (PCEF), the city’s voter-approved eco-energy fund which is presenting the request to council, the accelerated timeline is essential to distributing the program’s first round of heat-mitigating tools to homeowners and renters this summer. This new PCEF program, called the Heat Response Program, was one of...