Last November, Portland voters passed a ballot measure to created Portland Clean Energy Fund (PCEF). On Thursday, the Portland City Council voted the fund into official city code. The PCEF establishes a one percent business tax on companies that annually make over a billion dollars nationally, and more than $500,000 locally. That money will be used for environmentally-friendly job creation and sustainable building projects that will benefit low-income people and people of color. It passed.
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