Extended Producer Responsibility

Extended Producer Responsibility Who’s Responsible for the Old Mattress? The folktale, The Princes and the Pea, possibly based on a true story, involved a stack of 20 mattresses and a pea placed in the bottom mattress as a test for the Princes. The author joked that the pea was placed in the Royal Museum, but what of all those mattresses? Chief…

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HB 2348 Bans Bacon in Hospitals, Nursing Homes…

Among over 3000 bills introduced, the Oregon Legislatures appears to want to ban bacon from hospitals. House Bill 2348, introduced by Representative Wilde (D- Eugene), requires hospitals, long-term facilities, and prisons in Oregon to make plant-based meals available, with a provision that bans bacon, sausages and other processed meats. A hospital is often a place where people spend their last…

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Special Legislative Session 8:00 AM Wednesday June 24, 2020

Governor Kate Brown Calls Special Session to Improve Police Accountability and Address the COVID-19 Pandemic Press release: HERE 

Select Bills Passed in the 2019 Legislative Session

With all the uproar over a few of the worst bills, here is a list of 29 bills we thought should not escape notice during the last legislative session!  

END OF SESSION TOWNHALLS

ALERT – SAVING OREGON IS ONGOING! The battle against Cap and Trade, gun control, forced vaccinations, increases taxes and fees, and many other bills is not over. They are only suspended to February 2020. We must keep the pressure on at Townhalls to make sure Legislators know we will continue to fight for our state. Some Legislators have a notion…

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