GEI News and Events

NW Natural seeks a 7% increase two months after the Oregon Public Utility Commission approved its rate increase.

GEI offers opinions about legislation that would require utility transparency about spending ratepayer dollars on efforts to undermine climate policy and avoid wildfire litigation liability. GEI also addresses Oregon’s transportation funding shortfall.

Check out GEI’s December 2024 newsletter to see highlights of our work.

GEI and Breach Collective publish a helpful guide for local governments in Oregon identifying policy options that disincentivize fossil fuel use in buildings and provide funding for broader decarbonization efforts.

GEI offers a helpful factsheet on the status of regulatory requirements for blending hydrogen into methane in Oregon’s pipelines.

GEI has been in the news this March.

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.

Read about GEI’s work on HB 2021, wildfire liability, and post-California Restaurant Ass’n v. Berkeley pathways.

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.

Watch the recording here.

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.

Lewis & Clark’s Green Energy Institute has been awarded the Bob Olsen Memorial Conservation Eagle Award by the NW Energy Coalition.

Read GEI’s Newsletter summarizing some of its work this year.

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 GEI’s staff attorney, Caroline Cilek, discuss the role RECs play with implementation of Oregon’s 100% Clean Energy for All legislation (HB 2021).