Ok. So maybe I exaggerate. The utilities that serve us are not exactly person-eating zombies, but they do often ask for terrifying rate hikes and try to make hideously foolish decisions that put customers at risk.

Take for example, PGE’s recent IRP.... Read More »

If you are reading this blog you probably know that CUB’s work involves analyzing utility rate increases and resource plans, as well as other complicated economic work. So it was with great excitement that CUB welcomed our new Economist, Will Gehrke... Read More »

As a non-profit organization that is also Oregon’s primary consumer advocate for investor-owned utility customers…we clearly attract employees that have a passion for the work we do. What has been surprising to us is that we have also attracted a number of... Read More »

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 »

Organized by the Oregon Just Transition Alliance, this Saturday’s (April 29, 2017) Portland People’s Climate March connects climate change to racial and social justice issues.

Oregon Just Transition Alliance member organizations represent communities at the front line of environmental and climate injustice,... Read More »

My eclectic work history includes a stint as a middle school science teacher, so my favorite recent protest sign read: “What do we want? Evidence based science! When we want it? After peer review!”

I know that my middle school science students didn’t... Read More »