Update - February 2, 2016: Janice appeared this morning on the Carl Wolfson show to give a preview of the panel she will be moderating next week on the Portland Harbor Superfund. You can listen to the interview here!

CUB is... Read More »

It is hard to believe, but it really is the end of 2015…that means we are halfway through the second decade of the 21st Century. I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that it was just yesterday when we... Read More »

The Citizens’ Utility Board of Oregon (CUB) welcomes the inaugural members of the new Portland Utility Board (PUB) who were confirmed by the City Council at its August 19th session. 

Janice Thompson, CUB’s Consumer Advocate for Portland Public Utilities, served on the... Read More »

Elizabeth Royte’s Bottlemania was published in 2008, but is still informative. A longer review can be found here, but some key points are that Royte’s goal is to address these two questions:

• What are the physical differences between tap and bottled water,... Read More »

Drought in California is starting to change water use patterns, as illustrated by the recent data indicating that monthly residential water savings jumped 28.9% between May of 2014 and 2015. So how does Portland water use compare to usage by... Read More »

CUB’s Janice Thompson provided key testimony at City Hall in support of an ordinance creating the new Public Utility Board (PUB) that was adopted unanimously by the City Council on Wednesday June 10th.

Janice was an influential member of the Utility Oversight... Read More »