Oregon Gov. Kate Brown took a page out of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s playbook Tuesday as she signed a climate executive order [pictured] after GOP lawmakers fled the state to avoid taking action on a climate bill.
Brown’s order intends to reduce carbon emissions by 45% below 1990 levels within 15 years and an 80% cut by 2050.
The order also directs regulators to issue rules placing caps on emissions for the state’s fossil fuel industry, a move conservatives say would decimate rural parts of the state.
“I’ve heard it loud and clear from our young people in Oregon: climate action is crucial and urgent,” Brown said in a statement announcing the move. “If we adults don’t take action right away, it is the next generation that will pay the price.
“This executive order is extensive and thorough, taking the boldest actions available to lower greenhouse gas emissions under current state laws,” Brown said, adding that she made the decision to help set “Oregon on a path we can be proud to leave behind for our children.”
The Democrat’s maneuver also requires 20% of her state’s transportation fuels to come from electricity, natural gas, and propane within a decade, and 25% by 2035.
Brown’s EO comes less than a month after 11 Republican lawmakers walked out of the state capitol, preventing the majority party from reaching a quorum on a cap-and-trade bill.
They say making tracks for another state was one of their only options after Democrats won the majority in 2018.
Her decision was a long-time in the making. Republicans employed a similar tactic in 2019 when they walked out in June to prevent a quorum in protest against HB 2020, a cap-and-trade climate bill.
They stayed away even after Brown authorized Oregon State Police to return the lawmakers to Salem.
Republicans railed against the bill at the time.
“Pay attention Oregon — this is a true example of partisan politics,” Oregon Senate Republican Leader Herman Baertschiger Jr. said in a statement in February. Others were similarly apoplectic.
“Denying quorum is one of the only tools that the minority party has right now,” Senate Republican spokeswoman Kate Gillem told WaPo, noting that the bill is too divisive to move forward during the legislature’s 35-day “short session.”
Brown’s decision is similar to one Sen. Bernie Sanders proposed on the campaign trail.
Sanders, a self-avowed democratic socialist, revealed his own Green New Deal in August 2019, promising everything from “virtually free” electricity and a “hunger-free” transition to green energy from fossil fuels.
His nearly 14,000-page memo also lays out that he would call a national emergency on climate change.
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Representative government is so inconvenient. This is why leftists are jealous of China, where the government can do whatever it wants.
You don’t need no stinkin’ legislature. Just issue dictates and orders. That’s how Obama did it too.
Can we ever expect anything less from a liberal dirty rotten democrat? who rejects the U.S. Constitution and decides their orders are to be passed no matter what Yes the Dirty Democrats they belong in either prison or a mental institution
OK youngsters – you have to do your part too. Reduce emissions.
You get to walk to and from school – no fossil fuel vehicles. Note: bicycles and skate boards are not allowed on sidewalks. Powering electronic devices generates emissions. You must stop using phones and tablets. Use of laptops will be confined to school work only – no “surfing” and no social sites. At home: “lights out” at 10PM on week nights, midnight on Saturdays. Television hours will be limited.
Upon graduation from high school, no automobile. You will now be allowed to own and use a smart phone, but no access to social sites till age 21.
Inter-school sports games will be limited, and will be played in daylight hours on non-school days only.
And that’s just a start of the things that youngsters could/should be doing to reduce their “carbon footprint”.
I don’t know with certainty if the “youngsters” are the same everywhere, but EVERY young person I know claims to be massively concerned about climate change, and also has a massive carbon footprint. They travel to every corner of the earth for adventures. They wear beach style clothing in the house in winter and turn the thermostat way up to keep comfortable. They never turn off a light when they leave the space, etc, etc, etc,
Its all about controling our lives from cradle to grave force us all to go vegan live in some beehive apartment complex travel only to places they dictate travel in mass transport limit the number of kids you have and watch Big brother in the view screen if you want to see a movie about controled lives LOGAN’S RUN is a good movie to see where your not allowed to live past 30 and Sandmen are sent after all those who try to escape
The worst part this is disregarding the constitutional form of government as Obama. By passing the legislator is exercising the exact power Hitler had. Of course, if you are a Democrat, anything that furthers your worthy cause is justified.
This is going to cost me. Though I live in Western Washington I retained the home I in Oregon that I inherited from my father.
Governor, punish your citizens to the fullest extent of your warped climate doxology. Remember, they are free to leave your moronic climate funhouse….