Last night, PGE customers arrived at Jefferson High School in North Portland with signs and prepared speeches to express their opposition to PGE’s proposed rate increase.  Oregon Public Utility Commissioners Savage, Ackerman, and Bloom listened to the diverse group which included PSU... Read More »

On Februrary 15, 2013, PGE filed a request with the Public Utility Commission for a 9.3% rate increase for residential customers. PGE already has the highest rates of any utility in the state that serves more than 5,000 customers. CUB... Read More »

CUB is excited to announce our upcoming policy conference, which will take place on Friday October 25th, 2013. Thanks to our generous partnership with the University of Oregon School of Law, we will be hosting this event at the historic Read More »

Yesterday, Caitlin and I got to celebrate AmeriCorps week talking to students at Alpha High School in Gresham about our work at CUB. We were at Alpha High School for a career fair organized by my AmeriCorps colleague Melina Maltese,... Read More »

Last week, CUB headed down to Eugene for the 31st annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC). With more than 3,000 attendees from 50 countries and 125 panels over the four-day conference, PIELC is considered the largest and most comprehensive... Read More »

The third and final Fix-It-Fair, sponsored by the city’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, is coming up this Saturday, February 23rd. The fair will be open from 9:30 am to 3:00 pm at Ron Russell Middle School, 3955 SE 112th Ave.

The... Read More »