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350PDX is in the Give!Guide

November 1, 2018/in News /by Ashley Weatherspoon

350PDX is excited to announce that for the fourth year we are participating alongside 150 Portland based non-profits in the Give!Guide.

From now until December 31st you can donate directly to 350PDX through the Give!Guide.

What is the Give!Guide? It’s Portland’s easiest path to year-end giving. G!G showcases small, medium and large organizations whose missions fall into eight categories: Animals, Civil & Human Rights, Community, Creative Expression, Education, Environment, Health and Human Services.

In 14 years, G!G has raised over $24 million for hundreds of local nonprofits. Last year, WW readers gave nearly $4.2 million to 150 Portland organizations and the Oregon Cultural Trust.

Donate to 350PDX through the G!G Today!

What’s in it for our donors?

350PDX and its business partners will be providing the following incentives for G!G donors who give to 350PDX:

All Donors will receive a bag of bagel chips from Spielman’s Bagels. (G!G donations Only)
All Donors aged 35 and under will receive a bag of UMI Organic Ramen Noodles – first 10 donors will also receive Umi organic sauce! (G!G Donations Only)
Donors of $100 will be entered in a raffle for one magnum of wine and a tasting/tour at Winderlea Winery and Vineyard
Donors of $250 or more will be entered into a raffle for a vacation home weekend in Bend!
Match up to $1000 in funding from Trillium Investment

G!G are providing the following incentives for donors who give to any G!G non-profit:

Donors of $10 or more – Home delivery of Widmer Brothers Beer, KIND Bars, a free Washman carwash, a Chinook Book Download code, and more
Donors of $1,000 – $2,499 and live in the Portland metro area will receive incentive bags full of local goods delivered directly to their home by G!G nonprofits. Donors can also pick up their incentive bags, either out of preference or because they are located outside of the Portland metro area.
Donors of $2500 – $4,999 – Nossa Familia Coffee, Bob’s Red Mill steelcut oats, A to Z Wineworks Bubbles, Guayaki Yerba Mate and more
Donors of $5,000+ – Home delivery by Mark Zusman or Richard Meeker [co-owners of the Willamette Week] of everything in the $2,500-$4,999 bag, plus a bag of Jasmine Pearl Tea Company tea and more

There will be a chance to win even more goodies by giving on Big Give Days which will happen almost every week through Dec. 31st.

November 8th – A chance to win a $500 shopping spree at Powell’s Books
November 14th – A Tender Loving Empire gift packages + a year’s supply of Laughing Planet (Each TLE package includes four brand new records, a TLE mixtape, a $100 shopping spree, a comfy t shirt, a mug, and more)
November 26th – Two nights at Brasada Ranch in a luxury suite and a round of golf
December 6th – Two Sony RX 100 VA Cameras from Pro Photo Supply
December 13 -2 Tickets (with parking) to Dec. 19th , 2018 Portland Trailblazers vs. Memphis Grizzlies game and Jan. 9th, 2019 Trailblazers vs. Chicago Bulls game; plus a jersey signed by Jusuf Nurkic
December 20th – One Specialized FX 1 Commuter Bike from Bike Gallery
December 27th – One Cultural Adventure Package Across Oregon from the Oregon Cultural Trust

It is because of our generous donors that we are able to magnify the reach of our message of fighting climate injustices and maximize the potential our dedicated foundation of volunteers. Thank you to our business partners for providing these incentives for our donors and to the Give Guide for allowing us to reach a broader audience.

Click here donate to 350PDX through the Give!Guide today.

The EPA wants to scrap coal and emissions standards – here’s how to say NO!

October 26, 2018/in Announcements /by Chris Palmer

No automatic alt text available. On Tuesday 23rd October, the Oregon DEQ held a public hearing that was a rare opportunity for Oregonians to comment on changes the EPA is proposing to standards for national automobile fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.

Three folks from 350PDX testified against these changes (see their comments below), and until the following dates you can submit comments too!

The Safer Affordable Fuel Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Proposed Rule for Model Years 2021-2026 (website here) – Comment Due 26th October 2018
- a. Online: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and follow the instructions for submitting comments to EPA-HQ-OAR-2018-0283.
- b. Email: Comments may be sent to a-and-r-Docket@epa.gov. Include Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2018-0283 in the subject line of the message.

Proposal: Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) Rule (website here) – Comment Due 31st October 2018
- a. Online: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and follow the instructions for submitting comments to EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0355.
- b. Email: Comments may be sent to a-and-r-Docket@epa.gov. Include Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0355 in the subject line of the message.

See some talking points here: https://docs.google.com/…/1mYOlgTwArqssSFT0mxsgj3nvfUJ…/edit

Or take inspiration from the wonderful testifiers below.

Brooke

“Give the EPA a piece of your mind ASAP!

That’s what I did Tuesday night at a public hearing on EPA rollbacks of vehicle and coal plant emissions standards. I was nervous to get up and speak, but after listening to 10 year girl say “It’s scary thinking when I grow up it won’t be safe anymore,” that was it for me. So, I just told it like it is: the EPA’s new rules will increase greenhouse gas emissions, which will exacerbate climate change and harm our health and environment. As you can imagine, the EPA doesn’t want to hear what people think about their proposed rules, and that’s exactly why you should speak up. You still have a tiny window of time to give them the what for. How to comment? Go to the bottom of this document from Neighbors for Clean Air for helpful talking points and the links to submit comments about vehicle emissions rules (SAFE) byOctober 26 and comments about the coal plant standards rule by October 31.”

Submit a Public Comment on Tacoma’s Fracked Gas Project

October 25, 2018/in News /by Chris Palmer

Submit a Public Comment on Tacoma's Fracked Gas Project

Puget Sound Energy is trying to build a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) refinery, storage and distribution facility in the Tideflats area of Tacoma. It is sited on Puyallup Tribal lands and is being built without their consent. There are many concerns about the project including taxpayer and ratepayer subsidization, safety issues, environmental impact, and the effect on our climate.
The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA) found the initial Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) lacking, and they opened up a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) process to take into account the full life cycle impacts of natural gas (mostly fracked these days) in terms of its role in climate change. This could set an important precedent for how future projects are evaluated.
The Draft of the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) was released Monday, October 8th. The draft analysis came to the conclusion that there would be less greenhouse gas produced if the project is built than if it isn't! Needless to say, their analysis is extremely flawed - let's make this point with comments to PSCAA!. Public comments will be accepted from Oct 8 until midnight on Nov 21.

Read the talking points from Advocates for a Cleaner Tacoma here!
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Dear Puget Sound Clean Air Agency,
First of all, I want to thank you for opening up this review process on the Puget Sound Energy Liquefied Natural Gas project being built in Tacoma. With our climate in grave peril, as emphatically stated in the latest IPCC report, your review of the greenhouse gas impacts of the natural gas used in this project couldn't be more important. Those scientists make clear that we cannot, and must not, allow any further fossil fuel infrastructure to be built and must rapidly transition to renewable energy sources.
With that said, I am aware of several issues with the draft report you issued on October 8th. It is my belief that if these issues are given proper attention and addressed with best available science, it will show that the marginal improvements in emissions the study claims will disappear and the project will in fact be worse for the climate than doing nothing at all.
Here are some of the issues as I understand them:
- The SEIS is not using the best available science for the Global Warming Potential (GWP) of methane. It uses the 100-year GWP of methane and not the 20-year value which is much more relevant given the urgency in addressing the climate crisis. The appropriate 20-year GWP value to use is 96.
- This facility is projected to have a 40 year lifespan, so why does the report project out to 100 years, which is 90 years beyond the time we need to have taken decisive action?
- The SEIS claims emissions benefits from customers that Puget Sound Energy simply does not have. According to PSE and the City of Tacoma, the only maritime customer is TOTE with its two vessels which have already delayed their conversion to consume LNG.
Securing new customers (there are only just over 100 LNG ships in operation out of a worldwide fleet of 90,000) as well as the additional permitting could take years and is not guaranteed.
- The SEIS says that emissions will only be reduced if the natural gas comes from Canada, because leakage rates are reportedly lower there than in the US. Shockingly, most leakage rates were self-reported by the fossil fuel industry based on models and recent measurements taken in the field have shown that leakage rates are much much worse.
- How can it be guaranteed that PSE is sourcing its gas from BC anyway? Their recent filings show they relied on gas from BC, Alberta, and the US. And with the recent pipeline explosion in BC that interrupted PSE's supply, we know it's not always available.
- When ships use any fuel, a certain percentage of it escapes without combusting through the exhaust system and into the atmosphere. This is known as slippage and the SEIS uses a lower rate than is considered best practice.
Thanks again for initiating this crucially important review of this facility and I hope that you will take best available science into consideration when revising this draft SEIS.
Sincerely,
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A 350er Goes Canvassing!

October 17, 2018/in just Transition /by Chris Palmer

On Sunday I spent some time canvassing for PCEI – The Portland Clean Energy Initiative. Confession–I did it because Anissa, who is staffing this for 350PDX, nagged me and all the other Board members until we said yes.