In order to stop the climate crisis from getting worse, we have to keep the remaining fossil fuel reserves in the ground. The Pacific Northwest is currently facing many active proposals for new fossil fuel infrastructure that if built would lock us into the fossil fuel economy and its carbon pollution for decades to come. The Fossil Fuel Resistance team seeks to stop new fossil fuel projects from being built in Portland or to service the Portland metro area, and to engage in regional fights to stop all new fossil fuel infrastructure in the PNW and beyond!

What does the Fossil Fuels Resistance Team work on?

Stopping local fossil fuel infrastructure

Stopping regional fossil fuel exports and new major pipelines, power plants, and refineries

Stopping fossil fuel infrastructure built to service the Portland Metro Area

Making major polluters pay for the costs of the climate crisis

Rapid response campaigns

CURRENT CAMPAIGNS + Action opportunities

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Climate Safe, People Safe, River Safe:
Transition the CEI Hub

We’re organizing to transition the Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub away from dangerous and climate harming liquid fuels in large tanks right next to the river. The City of Portland is working on a CEI Hub Policy Project in 2025–2026, and we want them to draw down the liquid fuels stored there, and to ensure the ones that are there are seismically safer. The CEI Hub includes Zenith Energy and other fossil fuel companies. Learn more about this campaign and how to take action.

Link to: Methane's Time is Up.

Data Centers Pay their Fair Share!

Data centers use massive amounts of energy, and the costs are showing up on Oregonians’ electric bills, to the tune of almost a 50% PGE rate increase for residential customers since 2021! We helped pass the POWER Act in 2025, which sets up a separate customer category for data centers. This huge increase in energy “need” has put Oregon’s 100% clean energy goals in question, too. UM 2377 is the first case to decide the new data center energy rates.

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Oregon Make Polluters Pay

With advocates across the state, 350PDX is part of a grassroots campaign to hold big fossil fuel polluters accountable for the climate harm they have caused. We’re supporting a bill in the 2026 Oregon legislature. Check out the Oregon Make Polluters Pay website, and stay tuned for more ways to take action!

We always need people to:

  • Be a team member and support our campaigns
  • Show up to hearings, write comments, give testimony (and teach your friends & family how to!)
  • Write! Blog posts, website, letters to the editor, & other educational pieces
  • Event planning – including rallies, actions, and other community building educational events
  • Represent 350PDX in coalitions
  • Develop direct action skills
  • Help with data tracking, website maintenance, or creating maps
  • Track other local policies to stop fossil fuel infrastructure
  • Help with research & power mapping of existing facilities and proposed facilities
  • Take on leadership opportunities on all our new campaigns
  • …and any other skills or interests you may have!

Join us to stop fossil fuels and fight for clean energy in Portland and the Pacific Northwest!

We meet every 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 5:30 pm, and our meetings alternate between virtual on Zoom and in-person in our office in the Rebuilding Center on Mississippi Ave. To get the zoom link, information on joining the in-person meetings, and/or to sign up for an orientation to the team, reach out to Team Lead Ben Platt: benplatt59@gmail.com

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