Show your support for a strong Clean Fuels Program!

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) just released new draft rules that will expand and strengthen Oregon’s successful Clean Fuels Program to achieve greater climate pollution reductions by 2035. This is likely to be the most consequential climate action in Oregon this year – but Big Oil is lining up to weaken the program’s climate potential. Your voice is needed to secure an ambitious Clean Fuels Program and maximize the many climate, public health, and economic benefits that the program brings to Oregon.

We need your help to make this program as ambitious as possible and make progress ...

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) just released new draft rules that will expand and strengthen Oregon’s successful Clean Fuels Program to achieve greater climate pollution reductions by 2035. This is likely to be the most consequential climate action in Oregon this year – but Big Oil is lining up to weaken the program’s climate potential. Your voice is needed to secure an ambitious Clean Fuels Program and maximize the many climate, public health, and economic benefits that the program brings to Oregon.

We need your help to make this program as ambitious as possible and make progress in the fight for a healthy climate future. Join OEC in sending a clear message to DEQ: the time for bold climate action is now.

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Use the below form to submit comments urging DEQ to adopt an ambitious Clean Fuels Program that maximizes benefits for our climate, communities, and local economies.

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DEQ Clean Fuels Program Staff,

Thank you for the opportunity to provide comments on DEQ’s proposed Clean Fuels Program rules. I am writing to express strong support for maximizing climate, public health, community, and local economic benefits by adopting an ambitious Clean Fuels Program expansion.

The latest U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report stated that current policies to limit climate emissions will not be sufficient to avoid catastrophic and irreversible climate impacts. While Oregon has made meaningful progress to address the fossil fuel pollution driving the climate crisis, we must go farther, faster in order to avoid even worse climate impacts. The Clean Fuels Program is one of Oregon’s most important and cost-effective tools to reduce climate pollution from our largest emitting sector.

I urge DEQ to expand the carbon intensity reduction targets to go beyond the current proposed 20% below 2015 levels by 2030 and 37% below 2015 levels by 2035. Strong carbon intensity reduction targets will help move the needle on climate pollution, while improving public health and economic outcomes across Oregon. Cleaner fuels also help increase our energy security and protect Oregonians against harmful oil and gas price fluctuations at the pump. A strong target will spur innovation within Oregon and the region and send a signal that Oregon is a robust clean fuels marketplace. A weak target will dampen opportunity and make Oregon less competitive.

Likewise, I urge DEQ to maximize the clean air, climate, and health benefits of the program, by achieving these new targets through electrification as much as possible, and to continue to prioritize equitable economic outcomes, by encouraging credit-generating utilities to fund affordable and accessible public charging infrastructure in underserved areas such as low-income, BIPOC and rural communities.

Thank you for your consideration.

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