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Energy and Environment

Information regarding my stance on Energy and Environment issues.

June 6, 2016
Oregon’s Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, Governor Kate Brown and Representatives Earl Blumenauer and Suzanne Bonamici released the following statement today calling for a temporary halt to oil train traffic in Columbia River Gorge in light of last Friday’s derailment of a Union Pacific oil train in Mosier, OR.

May 25, 2016
Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici successfully added an amendment to increase funding for water power technology to the Department of Energy’s funding bill.

March 3, 2016
Wyden, Merkley, Bonamici and Blumenauer join almost 130 members of congress in call for more than 50 percent of U.S. electricity to come from clean and carbon-free sources by 2030