(Jeff Bissonnette speaks to CUB Board members outside the Oregon House of Representatives during the 2007 Legislative Session.)

Yet another session of the Oregon legislature has passed into the history books and CUB, with the help of its members, delivered some... Read More »

Today, Gov. Ted Kulongoski took a break from signing the hundreds of new bills that passed into law in the 2007 Legislative Session—took a break, that is, to use his line-item veto power, to rescind the diversion of ratepayer money. The $4.6... Read More »

The firestorm continues regarding the Legislature’s redirection of ratepayer energy efficiency monies (called public purpose funds and managed by the Energy Trust of Oregon) to pay off OMSI’s 15-year-old rebuilding loan. The money swipe was part of an omnibus spending bill, SB 994,... Read More »

Here at CUB, we love biology, archeology, paleontology, astronomy and all the other wonderful things that children and their adult companions discover at OMSI. However, we also believe in upholding the Oregon Constitution and making good public policy that protects... Read More »

Yesterday morning, Governor Ted Kulongoski signed into law SB 838, the Renewable Energy Standard, in a room full of those people who had helped make the idea into a bill and then move the bill through the Oregon Legislature (including,... Read More »

There has been dancing in the streets, or at least around our desks, after the passage of SB 838, the Renewable Energy Standard, by the Oregon House yesterday, with a final vote of 41-18. The passage of this bill means... Read More »