April 29, 2022 3:00 a.m. Harney County Commissioners have notified local state lawmakers that Harney County citizens have “requested to have our State Senator and District Representative acknowledge the desire for the State of Oregon’s border to be moved and investigate the possibility of Harney
Biden Administration Accelerates State Climate Solutions
May 5, 2021
Environmental disasters and new federal policy spike demand for renewable energy.
When Gov. Kate Brown issued Executive Order 20-04 in March 2020, directing state agencies to create new rules limiting companies’ carbon emissions, she was on the wrong side of the national moment.
One year after taking office in 2017, the Trump administration pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, the legally binding international treaty on climate change, and issued a flurry of executive orders rolling back Obama and Clinton-era environmental regulations 74 in total. For every regulation that was put into place, two were eliminated.