Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek is ordering state agencies to take steps that she said would speed up clean energy deployment and cut costs.
The first-term Democrat signed an executive order Wednesday outlining a suite of new directives on permitting, energy efficiency, climate resiliency, electrification and low-carbon fuel. Those policies aim to implement the state’s new energy strategy released this month.
The governor said her administration would pursue the cheapest pathway to the state’s 2040 target of decarbonizing electricity while navigating a federal administration hostile to climate policy.
“We’re talking about what we really need to meet our [climate] goals in an affordable way… where we’re not getting help from the federal government,” Kotek said Wednesday at a press conference.
