SB 828 Creates the Grid Resilience Matching Fund.

Establishes the Grid Resilience Matching Fund. Appropriates moneys in the fund to the State Department of Energy to provide state matching funds for federal grant funding for grid resilience projects. All moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the State Department of Energy for the purposes of providing state matching funds to leverage federal grant funding for grid resilience…

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HB 3119 Delays implementing transitioning diesel to electric

This Act tells DEQ to wait to enforce some California rules on truck exhaust. Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from implementing or enforcing the Advanced Clean Trucks regulations before January 1, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. Oregon’s diesel ban went into effect January 1, but with President Trump’s executive order promising to rescind EV mandates, the future…

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SB 1567 Walla Walla Water 2050 Strategic Plan

Vote: NO
Signed into law by Gov Kotek, 2024