Creates a program to recover the costs of climate change via a Climate Superfund Cost Recovery Program.

This program is a retaliation tax in arrears from January 1, 1995 to December 31, 2024, highly unethical for a government to choose winners and losers politicizing activities that weren’t given an opportunity to comply with. It is deeming them guilty without a lawful base making it unconstitutional. ORS 250.105, and the Oregon Constitution, Article IV, Section 1, laws do not allow it to be retroactive. Taxing entities in arrears for 30 years is tyranny at its finest. It is also double taxation after these entities have already purchased credits in compliance with “cap-and-trade.”

This bill is a carbon Tax which will raise the cost of Energy for every Oregonian by Authorizing the “Environmental justice community” with the Climate Superfund Cost Recovery Program to recover the costs of Climate Change!  Are we to believe the nonsense that Al Gore predicted in 2006, which never materialized, there is a reason the Federal Government has taken Global Warming off its websites and is defunding the hoax that the UN has imposed on the World.

SB 1187 is all about diversity, equity, and inclusion as the environmental justice mapping tool.

Those responsible and liable will be any individual, trustee, agent, partnership, association, corporation, company, municipality, political subdivision or other legal organization, including a foreign nation, that holds or held an ownership interest in a fossil fuel business during the covered period.

The funds collected will be used to implement eligible climate change adaptation projects and fire loss prevention and fire recovery due to wildfire. Oregon can forget about Federal funding for climate change adaptation projects

SECTION 10. The Environmental Quality Commission shall establish by rule:
(1)(a) Methodologies using the best available science and publicly available data to identify responsible parties and determine their applicable share of covered greenhouse gas
emissions.

SECTION 15. In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropriated to the Department of Land Conservation and Development, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $300,000, which may be expended for the purpose of carrying out sections 1 to 7 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 16. This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025 regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.

This is the same nonsense proposed in SB 682. There is no science to support or connect carbon emissions to climate change, which makes the bill nonfunctioning and open to lawsuits.

SUBMIT TESTIMONY before 4/11 at 3pm

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