The Renewable Energy Standard (RES) bill, Senate Bill 373, had its first hearing Tuesday in the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee, chaired by Sen. Brad Avakian. Governor Kulongoski made a brief speech about the importance of passing this bill,... Read More »

Members of CUB’s volunteer Board of Governors and Staff members journeyed to the State Capitol in Salem yesterday for a Lobby Day in support of CUB’s Pro-Consumer and Clean Energy Agenda. At the top of the list of bills we are supporting... 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 »

After all the ballots were counted up in Washington State (and it took until this week to do it), voters passed Initiative 937, the Clean Energy Initiative. Because of Washington State’s electoral practice of counting absentee ballots postmarked on Election Day,... Read More »

A couple of weeks ago, CUB Online talked about I-937, the Clean Energy Initiative in Washington State. We highlighted one of the key aspects of the measure: a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) requiring that 15% of the state’s energy be produced from... Read More »

A few weeks ago CUB Staff Attorney Jason Eisdorfer was quoted in a Northwest energy news publication, Clearing Up, saying, “If we’re going to rely on utilities to save the world, we’re in trouble.” He was speaking of global warming and the need to switch to... Read More »