The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a worldwide consortium of 2000 scientists and thinkers who have studied, synthesized and evaluated the scientific data available regarding climate change, have come out with their fourth report. In it, they have upgraded the... Read More »

We are not ones to hold back our criticism of Portland General Electric (critiques of PGE are all over our website, particularly in General Utility Regulation). That being said, we disagree strongly with the Oregonian’s criticism of PGE’s voluntary renewable power program.... Read More »

The Good News about President Bush’s State of the Union address last night was that he actually acknowledged “global climate change” and called it a “serious challenge.” The Bad News is that his proposal to address the serious challenge sounded not all that serious, a 20%... Read More »

CUB had a big week, snowstorm aside. Two hotly contested cases resulted in Orders from the Public Utility Commission and CUB feels good about the outcome of both.

First out of the gate was the Commission’s decision on PGE’s general rate case. PGE asked... Read More »

Well, 2006 has been called the Year of Living Globally (by eweek.com), the Year of You (by Time Magazine), and The Year of the Democratic Woman (by lots of people, from The Nation to The National Review). The year 2006... Read More »

This week we want to recognize and applaud PGE. Does that seem surprising? Well, credit should go where credit is due, and PGE has done a good thing. In fact, they’ve done exactly what we asked them to do, which is to... Read More »