Opinion: Can Oregon Maintain Its Place on the Environmental Leaderboard?
The state risks falling behind on legislative action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- Published in Opinion
The state risks falling behind on legislative action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
As the tax year wraps up, businesses still have time to realize deductions and prepare for new changes coming in 2020.
Many workers will receive full-wage replacement during their absence.
Depending on whom you ask, the fight over cap and trade represents the rural-urban divide or the inability of lawmakers to compromise. The real tension, however, lies in the business community as it sorts out who pollutes, who pays and what it means to do business in Oregon.
Carbon legislation causes rift for members of pro-climate policy business group.
Legislation that caps greenhouse gas emissions and creates a system for trading carbon credits could finally have a chance of progressing in 2018.