The governor is going to be on campus Wednesday to sign seven environmental bills. He’ll be on the north side of the Lillis Hall Atrium starting at 10:30 a.m. University officials said he chose Lillis because he wanted to sign the bills in a green building.
Here are summaries of the bills Kulongoski will sign. Note: the bill’s name links to its full text. The Oregonian’s pages on its legislative history are linked in parentheses.
- Senate Bill 38 (history): Allows the Environmental Quality Commission to monitor greenhouse emissions.
- Senate Bill 79 (history): Creates a task force to monitor energy producers.
- Senate Bill 101 (history): A widely supported bill aimed at restricting the use of coal by, among other things, preventing the creation of new coal power sources. The Sierra Club has gone to bat for this one, and it’s sponsored by Kulongoski himself.
- House Bill 2186 (history): Enacts a study on the prospects of adopting standards for truck emissions. The Oregonian has a more detailed article about this legislation here. It was the subject of angry opinion pieces in the Hillsboro Argus and the Corvallis Gazette-Times ran amusing opinion pieces scathing the bill, the former denying the existence of global warming, the latter casting it as employment insurance for rule-makers. The Oregon Cattlemen Association slammed the bill, saying it woulddrive up prices across the state. Truckers have also .
- House Bill 2626 (history): Creates a loan program for sustainable technology. The Oregonian’s Steve Duin likes it. The Hillsboro Argus has a slightly longer article on this one.
- House Bill 3039 (history): Allows people with solar panels to sell the energy back to utilities. Read about it in Alternative Energy Retailer Magazine and in slightly more depth at The Oregonian.
- House Bill 3463 (history): Creates regulations on biodiesel fuel.
10:30 PM? Is that correct?
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So it is 10 A.M. NOT 10:30 AM, that is, in the morning? You might want to change the time.
Just to be 100 percent clear: It is 10:30 a.m.