Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility

Premier Christy Clark

SEATTLE, WA: Yesterday one of the Canada’s top officials, Premier Christy Clark, requested that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stop the export of U.S. coal out of British Columbia’s ports. This request comes after the Trump Administration imposed a tax on Canadian lumber coming into the United States. If this request is approved, communities across the Pacific Northwest will benefit from a decrease in coal dust and diesel pollution that has long threatened the health of those living along rail lines. Open topped rail cars carrying coal contaminates air and water with particles containing arsenic, lead, mercury, and other dangerous pollutants.

Read the full press release here: British Columbian Premier Requests End to US Coal Exports Through Canada

(Photo courtesy of Portland Business Journal)

Oregon PSR hosted a rally outside of Portland General Electric's annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, April 26th, 2017. Advocates declared loud and clear that ratepayers do not want to be locked into several decades of climate-busting gas power plants. Our Program Assistant, Damon Motz-Storey, was quoted in coverage of the rally by the Portland Business Journal.

Northwest ratepayers could save hundreds of millions of dollars over the next decade if the Bonneville Power Administration and Energy Northwest shuttered the region's only commercial nuclear power plant and replaced its electricity with renewable sources, a new study has found.