In this month’s newsletter, we celebrate new federal funding coming to bolster Oregon energy efforts, help Oregonians rebuild from the 2020 wildfires, welcome U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to Oregon, and more.
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As part of ODOE’s work around radioactive materials disposal and transport, Director Janine Benner and some members of the ODOE Team recently toured two landfills owned by Waste Management in Gilliam County, south of the town of Arlington.
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ODOE will hold a public hearing Wednesday, August 31 to receive public input on its proposed grant application to the U.S. Department of Energy for the Preventing Outages and Enhancing the Resilience of the Electric Grid program created under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
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The Oregon Global Warming Commission is seeking applicants to serve on a new Natural and Working Lands Advisory Committee to provide input on the implementation of the Commission’s Natural and Working Lands Proposal, which was adopted in August 2021. The proposal set a net goal for sequestration and storage in natural and working lands, made recommendations for how to track progress toward the goal, and identified key strategies and programs needed to achieve the goal.
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The next regularly scheduled meeting of Oregon’s Energy Facility Siting Council will be held on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, August 29-31, 2022.
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The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is an exciting piece of historic legislation. This is the largest federal investment in clean energy and climate policy ever made by the federal government with many programs scheduled to last a decade. As the State Energy Office, ODOE will apply for new funding to bring into our state.
Read MoreThe Oregon Global Warming Commission will meet Thursday, August 18, 2022. The public meeting will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. online.
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Oregon, Washington, and a coalition of organizations have sent a joint letter to President Biden calling for increased funding for cleanup efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Site. Adequate funding is imperative to ensuring the safe and timely cleanup of the site to protect the Columbia River and those that rely on it.
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