CUB Energy Policy Conference

On Tuesday May 30, the CUB staff was pleased to welcome our Summer 2017 Law Clerk, Taylor Coronel. She is excited to learn from and work closely alongside CUB’s attorneys and other staff, and to support her fellow Oregon residents.

Taylor grew... Read More »

On June 1, both Multnomah County and the City of Portland adopted resolutions outlining a path to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. I feel honored to have testified on behalf of CUB that day in support of the two... Read More »

Editor’s Note: This blog was originally published on May 8, 2017. We have updated it to include a link to a CUB Action Alert, launched on Thursday June 1, 2017, asking Oregonians to add their names to comments CUB will submit... Read More »

According to several reports published today, including an article by Oregonian business investigative reporter Ted Sickinger, President Trump’s new budget proposal includes a plan to sell publicly owned transmission assets to create revenue for the U.S. Treasury. Chief among these plans... Read More »

CUB anticipated the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) revoking the Portland Water Bureau’s Cryptosporidium treatment variance because our monitoring of sampling results indicated that the allowed annual Crypto level was exceeded. 

Indeed, we testified at the May 18 utility rate hearing on the... Read More »

There was an overflow crowd of ratepayers at a Public Meeting, on PGE’s resource plan, that took place on Monday May 15th, 2017. Most were there to oppose replacing the Boardman coal plant with new natural gas plants. It is unusual... Read More »