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Wallowa County Chieftain
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Business groups challenge Oregon’s Climate Protection Program
By GEORGE PLAVEN
Capital Press
SALEM — The Oregon
Farm Bureau is a member of
a coalition of 12 businesses
and trade groups challeng-
ing the state’s Climate Pro-
tection Program in court.
The coalition fi led a peti-
tion for legal review March
18. The Climate Protec-
tion Program rules were
approved by the Oregon
Environmental
Quality
Commission in December to
reduce greenhouse gas emis-
sions from transportation
fuels and natural gas.
Fuel suppliers must curb
emissions from the products
they sell 50% by 2035, and
90% by 2050. The program
sets an annual limit on emis-
sions from fossil fuels —
such as gasoline, diesel, pro-
pane and natural gas — that
gradually lowers over time.
According to the peti-
tion, the rules were designed
to limit the availability of
covered fuels, making them
too expensive or prohibit-
ing them outright in certain
cases.
However, because busi-
ness and consumer use of
these fuels is central to Ore-
gon’s economy, “the CPP
rules will have a profound
and unprecedented impact
on everyday life in Oregon,”
coalition members argued.
In a written state-
ment, Mary Anne Cooper,
vice president of govern-
ment aff airs for the Oregon
Farm Bureau, said the state
Department of Environmen-
tal Quality acted outside its
authority in enacting the Cli-
mate Protection Program.
Specifi cally,
Oregon’s
air quality statutes include
a section that addresses
Farm Supply/Contributed Photo
A semi and trailers fi lled with grain prepare to move out. Farm Supply, of Enterprise, hauls farm commodities all over the
Northwest — and beyond. The Oregon Farm Bureau and 11 other businesses and trade groups are challenging Oregon’s
Climate Protection Program in court.
COALITION MEMBERS
• Oregon Manufacturers and Commerce.
A coalition of businesses and trade groups
are challenging Oregon’s Climate Protection
Program rules. The program, adopted by the
state Environmental Quality Commission
in December, seeks to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions from transportation fuels and
natural gas.
• Alliance of Western Energy Consumers.
Members of the coalition include:
• Western Wood Preservers Institute.
• Oregon Farm Bureau.
• Otley Land and Cattle LLC.
• Oregon Business & Industry Association.
• Space Age Fuel Inc.
greenhouse gas reduction
goals. While the Legisla-
ture has declared it state pol-
icy to reduce emissions, it
“does not create any addi-
tional regulatory authority
• Associated Oregon Loggers Inc.
• Northwest Pulp and Paper Association.
• Oregon Association of Nurseries.
• Oregon Forest and Industries Council.
• Oregon Trucking Associations Inc.
for an agency of the execu-
tive department.”
“Oregonians should not
stand for a state agency cre-
ating policies that it does not
have the authority to write,
and it sets a dangerous prec-
edent for the future,” Coo-
per said. “We cannot sit by
and allow the governor and
unelected bureaucrats to cir-
cumvent the legislative pro-
cess to exert their will.”
Democrats in the Oregon
Legislature had previously
tried to pass similar cap-
and-trade legislation in 2019
and 2020, though both times
they were stymied by Sen-
ate Republicans who staged
walk-outs to deny a vote on
the bills.
Instead, Gov. Kate Brown
signed Executive Order
20-04 requiring state agen-
cies to come up with plans
for lowering emissions to
mitigate the worst eff ects of
climate change.
DEQ crafted the Climate
Protection Program one
year and nine months after
Brown announced her exec-
utive order. The controver-
& Skylight
Gallery
sial proposal garnered more
than 7,600 public comments
before passing the EQC by a
3-1 vote.
Farmers and ranchers are
“price-takers,” Cooper said,
meaning they cannot pass
higher production costs —
such as increased fuel prices
— along to consumers.
“The rules ... would
impose signifi cant new fuel
costs on all Oregonians,
which we know Oregon’s
family farms and ranches
cannot aff ord to pay,” she
said. “It also would invest
money raised under the pro-
gram in hand-picked off -
set projects largely in urban
areas.”
Other agricultural mem-
bers of the coalition include
the Oregon Association of
Nurseries and Otley Land
and Cattle LLC, a 414-acre
hay and cattle ranch in Har-
ney County.
Nursery crops represent
Oregon’s top agricultural
sector by value of sales, with
products totaling nearly $1.2
billion in 2020.
As part of the petition
against the Climate Protec-
tion Program, OAN states
its members rely on aff ord-
able, accessible and reliable
natural gas for their green-
houses, as well as diesel,
gasoline and other trans-
portation fuels to distribute
products to customers.
Similarly, Otley Land
and Cattle says it depends
on a host of equipment pow-
ered by gasoline and die-
sel to farm crops and raise
livestock.
“The CPP Rules will raise
fuel prices and limit fuel
supplies, making it harder
for Otley Land and Cattle to
continue the family’s busi-
ness,” the petition states.
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5. Once ___ while
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55. Provide the food for
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