{"id":3349,"date":"2021-12-16T13:11:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T21:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rogueclimate.org\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2021-12-16T13:12:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T21:12:00","slug":"climate-protection-program21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rogueclimate.org\/es\/climate-protection-program21\/","title":{"rendered":"COMUNICADO DE PRENSA: La Comisi\u00f3n de Calidad Ambiental de Oreg\u00f3n adopta reglas para reducir las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.4.4″ custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.4.4″ custom_margin=”-2px|auto||auto||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.4″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.14.2″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:\u00a0
<\/b>Thursday, December 16, 2021
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CONTACT:
<\/b>Allie Rosenbluth, <\/span>allie@rogueclimate.org,<\/span> 541-816-2240
Erin Saylor, erin@columbiariverkeeper.org, 541-399-4775<\/span>
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Oregon’s Environmental Quality Commission Adopts Rules to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions<\/b><\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Environmental Justice and Public Health Advocates Concerned the Program Falls Short of its Goals<\/span>
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[SALEM, OR]<\/b> — <\/span>Today, the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission voted to approve the state\u2019s first greenhouse gas regulatory program, known as the Climate Protection Program or \u201cCPP,\u201d designed to regulate emissions from gas utilities, fuel suppliers, and stationary sources of pollution. While environmental justice and public health advocates applaud this step forward for action on climate, they expressed concerns about major gaps in the program.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) responded to over 7,600 comments and hours of public testimony by strengthening the goals of the program, but the agency failed to address concerns about the program\u2019s exclusion of significant stationary sources of climate pollution, most notably fracked gas power plants\u2014the largest stationary sources of greenhouse gas pollution in the state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFracked gas power plants in Oregon that export electricity or supply it directly to corporations like bitcoin mining operations are a potentially huge source of climate pollution, and aren\u2019t regulated by either the CPP or Oregon\u2019s 100% Clean Energy For All law,\u201d said <\/span>Allie Rosenbluth, Campaigns Director at Rogue Climate,<\/span> and member of the CPP Rulemaking Advisory Committee. \u201cThe Governor needs to step up and direct Oregon\u2019s agencies to collaborate and figure out how to close that glaring loophole.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe DEQ has the authority to regulate more sources of greenhouse gas emissions, including fracked gas power plants,\u201d said <\/span>Erin Saylor, Staff Attorney at Columbia Riverkeeper<\/span>. \u201cIn the coming year, we hope DEQ and other state agencies can work together to ensure Oregon doesn\u2019t become a dumping ground for virtually unregulated private and exported power projects.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Environmental justice advocates also criticized the program\u2019s exclusion of large industrial sources of air and climate pollution in communities most impacted by these polluters. Only 12 stationary polluters in Oregon will be regulated by this program.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBecause the CPP rules don\u2019t go far enough to protect Oregon\u2019s most vulnerable communities like the Cully neighborhood, DEQ needs to prioritize reducing pollution in environmental justice communities as it implements the program,\u201d said<\/span> Candace Avalos, Executive Director at Verde, <\/span>an organization that served on the CPP rulemaking advisory committee. \u201cWe\u2019ll be monitoring implementation to make sure DEQ makes good on this goal, and the emissions are actually reduced in the communities we serve.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese rules have come a long way, but very few stationary sources of pollution are covered, so we expect DEQ to ensure pollution reductions in environmental justice communities going forward,\u201d said <\/span>Nikita Daryanani, Climate and Energy Policy Manager at the Coalition of Communities of Color,<\/span> an organization that was also represented on the rulemaking advisory committee for the CPP. \u201cCommunities of color statewide are exposed to higher levels of pollution than average, which contributes to health disparities. We will be watching the program as it is implemented to ensure that pollution is reduced in frontline communities with the urgency the climate crisis requires.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThe passage of the Climate Protection Program is great, but much work is still needed in regards to the regulation of fracked gas power plants,\u201d said <\/span>Patricia Kullberg, former Medical Director of the Multnomah County Health Department and advocate from Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility<\/span>. \u201cIn addition to their contribution to global warming, gas-fired power plants emit a range of pollutants\u2014 including particulate matter, various carcinogens and ozone-forming chemicals\u2014that are toxic to human health and reproduction and often lead to premature death. These pollutants are emitted primarily into rural, low income and disproportionately BIPOC communities, which are more sensitive to toxic exposures and less prepared to adapt to harmful exposures.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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