Oregon Lawmakers Revive Controversial Effort to Implement Cap-and-Trade System

Oregon lawmakers look to reshape cap-and-trade program to pay for transportation needs • Oregon Capital Chronicle

Traffic sometimes flows on Interstate 5 in Portland but is often bunched up around the Rose Quarter. (Oregon Department of Transportation/Flickr)This is a developing story and will be updated. As Oregon lawmakers scrounge for ways to pay for hundreds of millions in transportation needs, they’ve dug up a new twist on an old plan: allowing polluters to buy and trade carbon credits. In a memo to House and Senate caucus leaders on Thursday, transpor…

Oregon lawmakers look to reshape cap-and-trade program to pay for transportation needs

As Oregon lawmakers scrounge for ways to pay for hundreds of millions in transportation needs, they’ve dug up a new twist on an old plan: allowing polluters to buy and trade carbon credits. In a memo to House and Senate…

Oregon lawmakers are now considering a ‘cap-and-trade’ program to fund roads, wildfire prevention

The surprising development dredges up debate on a topic that once inspired multiple Republican walkouts

Oregon lawmakers revive controversial effort to implement cap-and-trade system

A key group of lawmakers have proposed that Oregon shift to a market-based emissions allowance system that could fundamentally alter the state’s regulation of companies that emit pollution in order to help fund two of the Legislature’s top priorities this session.

Oregon lawmakers are now considering a ‘cap-and-trade’ program to fund roads, wildfire

As Oregon lawmakers frantically search for money to fund roads and wildfire prevention, they have landed on a surprising idea: Dredging up a fight over cap-and-trade that once dominated legislative attention.

Advocates in shock as Dems float 'cap and pave' plan while funding bill remains secret

(Photo: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland) With just five weeks remaining in the 2025 legislative session, lawmakers have yet to unveil the details of a transportation funding package. This delay was brought into even sharper focus when the two co-chairs of the committee the bill is being crafted in released a memo Thursday with an update on their progress. Among the list of items leaders of the Joint Committee on Transportation Reinvestment (TRIP) upd…