GEI News and Events
- NEWS
GEI Celebrates Ten Years and its Achievements
Read GEI’s Newsletter summarizing some of its work this year.
Join us at the NW Energy Coalition Conference!
Register for the December 6 conference in Portland
GEI Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary
GEI celebrated its Tenth Anniversary on Friday, September 15 by co-hosting Northwest Energy Opportunities: Transportation Electrification, Markets, and Career Paths for New Lawyers.
WATCH: The Legal Basis for Renewable Energy Certificates
Watch GEI’s staff attorney, Caroline Cilek, discuss the role RECs play with implementation of Oregon’s 100% Clean Energy for All legislation (HB 2021).
GEI in the News
GEI’s Interim Director and Staff Attorney, Carra Sahler, served as a resource on two climate-related Oregonian stories.
GEI and Breach Collective Publish Guide for Local Governments
NOTE: This Guide was published prior to the Ninth Circuit’s decision in California Restaurant Ass’n v. City of Berkeley, 65 F.4th 1045, 1048 (9th Cir. 2023), petition for reh’g en banc filed, No. 21-16278 (9th Cir. May 31, 2023). Many, but not all, of the pathways remain viable. Please contact us for further information.
GEI and Breach Collective published Regulating Natural Gas in Oregon’s Buildings: A Guide for Local Governments. The Guide offers ten strategies, and the legal feasibility of each, available to local governments in Oregon who seek to curb or prevent natural gas (methane) emissions.Northwest Energy Opportunities: Transportation Electrification, Markets, and Career Paths for New Lawyers
Northwest Energy Opportunities: Transportation Electrification, Markets, and Career Paths for New Lawyers on September 15, 2023.
WATCH: Money, Money, Money: How Gas Utilities Could Chase IRA Dollars
To watch the one hour webinar, click here.
November 2022 Newsletter
GEI Celebrates Wins at the Oregon Public Utility Commission
September 2022 Newsletter
GEI shares bittersweet news about Amy Schlusser’s departure
GEI Defeats Request to Raise Gas Bills
The Green Energy Institute (GEI) and Earthjustice celebrate victory while representing climate, environmental justice, and community-led social justice organizations in proceeding by Oregon regulators reviewing NW Natural’s request to raise gas bills.
The Path to 2050: A Policy Pathway for Decarbonizing Oregon’s Economy
While Oregon has made significant progress, the state is not on track to achieve its climate targets. GEI has developed an economy-wide climate policy roadmap for Oregon that identifies a suite of laws and policies that will enable the state to achieve its climate goals in an equitable and economical manner.
It includes key policies for reducing transportation sector emissions, reducing electricity sector emissions, building emissions, industrial sector emissions, and cross-sector emissions.
Drafted by Amy Schlusser and Caroline Cilek, the report “is intended to reflect a balanced climate policy approach that is ambitious, cost-effective, equitable, and achievable.”
To view the full suite of policies included in our decarbonization policy pathway, we encourage readers to explore our pathway within the EPS model. Energy Policy Solutions, GEI Oregon Decarbonization Policy Pathway,https://energypolicy.solutions/simulator/oregon/en?s=xjggfr3z. The link will launch the Oregon EPS and download the GEI pathway.
GEI is Taking on Fossil Gas
GEI Staff Attorney Carra Sahler partnered with Earthjustice attorneys to represent a coalition of environmental and community-based organizations who intervened to challenge NW Natural’s proposed general rate revision.
Professor Joins the Prestigious American College of Environmental Lawyers
Professor Melissa Powers is recognized by peers as preeminent in the field of environmental law.
- EVENTS
Past Events
ENVX Symposium: panel discussion on the market challenges and opportunities of the transition to renewable energy
A panel discussion about the market challenges and opportunities of the transition to renewable energy will be held on Wednesday evening.
Panelists include:
- Susan Bladholm is the founder and president of Frog Ferry, a nonprofit grassroots initiative to bring a world-class passenger ferry service to the Portland metro region.
- Mica Miro is the engagement manager at Green Empowerment, working with in-country partner organizations to build clean water and renewable energy infrastructure with Indigenous and rural communities across the globe
- Olivia Cowly (’23) LC alumna will share her senior thesis work, “ Is the future electric? What the renewable energy revolution means for the ocean’s seabeds.”
- Joe Wachunas from the New Buildings Institute
The panel will be moderated by Yuko Aoyama and Clarence Edwards will provide closing comments.
ENVX Symposium: Keynote Presentations
Keynote presentations by Yuko Aoyama, an industrial economic geographer, and Clarence Edwards, a legislative advocate on climate change and US foreign policy. The title of Dr. Aoyama’s talk is Variable Capitalisms: Understanding Fixity, Fluidity, and Hybridity. The title of Mr. Edwards’ talk is The Type of Capitalism You Practice Matters. The two presentations will be followed by a discussion lead by Jessica Kleiss, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, and audience Q&A.
Northwest Energy Opportunities: Transportation Electrification, Markets, and Career Paths for New Lawyers
Energy Bar Association’s Western Chapter, Oregon State Bar’s Energy, Telecom, & Utility law Section, and the Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School Co-Sponsored Half-Day Conference
Friday, September 15, 2023 | 8 am – 12:30 pm | Lewis & Clark Law School Campus, Portland, OR
