GEI News and Events
- NEWS
News
GEI in the News!
GEI has been in the news this March.
GEI and Sierra Club File Amicus Briefs Arguing for Appealability of PUC Orders
GEI and Sierra Club join together to file two separate amicus briefs arguing that processes overseen by the Public Utility Commission end in final orders that are subject to appeal.
GEI Enters 2024 Ready to Work
Read about GEI’s work on HB 2021, wildfire liability, and post-California Restaurant Ass’n v. Berkeley pathways.
GEI Publishes Explanation of Public Utility Commission Order on HB 2021
Read a helpful explanation of the Public Utility Commission’s order concluding Oregon’s electricity decarbonization law does not require the retirement of renewable energy certificates.
GEI Director Carra Sahler is Interviewed: Ninth Circuit’s Berkeley decision leaves pathways open
Director and Staff Attorney Carra Sahler offered her thoughts about the effect on building decarb efforts after the Ninth Circuit’s decision invalidating Berkeley’s natural gas ban in buildings. Read the interview here.
Green Energy Institute Wins NW Energy Coalition Award
Lewis & Clark’s Green Energy Institute has been awarded the Bob Olsen Memorial Conservation Eagle Award by the NW Energy Coalition.
GEI Celebrates Ten Years and its Achievements
Read GEI’s Newsletter summarizing some of its work this year.
GEI Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary
GEI celebrated its Tenth Anniversary on Friday, September 15 by co-hosting Northwest Energy Opportunities: Transportation Electrification, Markets, and Career Paths for New Lawyers.
WATCH: The Legal Basis for Renewable Energy Certificates
Watch GEI’s staff attorney, Caroline Cilek, discuss the role RECs play with implementation of Oregon’s 100% Clean Energy for All legislation (HB 2021).
GEI in the News
GEI’s Interim Director and Staff Attorney, Carra Sahler, served as a resource on two climate-related Oregonian stories.
GEI and Breach Collective Publish Guide for Local Governments
NOTE: This Guide was published prior to the Ninth Circuit’s decision in California Restaurant Ass’n v. City of Berkeley, 65 F.4th 1045, 1048 (9th Cir. 2023), petition for reh’g en banc filed, No. 21-16278 (9th Cir. May 31, 2023). Many, but not all, of the pathways remain viable. Please contact us for further information.
GEI and Breach Collective published Regulating Natural Gas in Oregon’s Buildings: A Guide for Local Governments. The Guide offers ten strategies, and the legal feasibility of each, available to local governments in Oregon who seek to curb or prevent natural gas (methane) emissions.Northwest Energy Opportunities: Transportation Electrification, Markets, and Career Paths for New Lawyers
Northwest Energy Opportunities: Transportation Electrification, Markets, and Career Paths for New Lawyers on September 15, 2023.
WATCH: Money, Money, Money: How Gas Utilities Could Chase IRA Dollars
To watch the one hour webinar, click here.
- EVENTS
Past Events
Youth Climate Summit
High school students and other climate advocate youth! Join the Green Energy Institute, Rogue Climate, Verde, Earth Archetypes, and 350 PDX in a day long event filled with fun, learning, and skill building to get your community on a path toward meeting climate, environmental justice, and health goals. This is a free event with raffle prizes offered throughout the day!
ENVX Symposium: panel discussion on the market challenges and opportunities of the transition to renewable energy
A panel discussion about the market challenges and opportunities of the transition to renewable energy will be held on Wednesday evening.
Panelists include:
- Susan Bladholm is the founder and president of Frog Ferry, a nonprofit grassroots initiative to bring a world-class passenger ferry service to the Portland metro region.
- Mica Miro is the engagement manager at Green Empowerment, working with in-country partner organizations to build clean water and renewable energy infrastructure with Indigenous and rural communities across the globe
- Olivia Cowly (’23) LC alumna will share her senior thesis work, “ Is the future electric? What the renewable energy revolution means for the ocean’s seabeds.”
- Joe Wachunas from the New Buildings Institute
The panel will be moderated by Yuko Aoyama and Clarence Edwards will provide closing comments.
