Oregon Environmental Council

History

Current work

Activities

• 1968 - Passed Mount Jefferson Wilderness Bill
• 1971 - Led citizen support that passed the Oregon Bottle Bill, the first bottle bill in the nation
• 1973 - Helped pass Oregon Senate Bills 100 and 101, Oregon's land use planning law
• 1975 - Secured National Recreation Area protection for Hells Canyon
• 1977 - Secured nation's first ban on certain ozone-depleting chemicals
• 1987 - Created Oregon Superfund Program and the Governor's Watershed Enhancement Board
• 1991 - Secured the nation's first law requiring state agencies to minimize pesticide use
• 1999 - Passed a Pesticide Right to Know Law guaranteeing public access to data about all commercial pesticide use in Oregon
• 2003 - Passed a first-of-its-kind tax incentive for insurance companies to offer Pay-as-You-Drive auto insurance
• 2006 - Won United States Environmental Protection Agency Children's Environmental Health Excellence Award for their Eco-Healthy Child Care and Tiny Footprints programs that help parents and caregivers reduce children's exposure to toxic chemicals
• 2007 - Passed Climate Change Integration Act, setting greenhouse gas reduction goals for Oregon into statute and established statewide Global Warming Commission
• 2007 - Launched the Carbon Neutral Challenge for Oregon wineries, with dozens of Oregon wineries participating to reduce their carbon footprints
• 2008 - Released landmark "Pollution in People" report, which tested the bodies of 10 Oregon men and women for chemicals, followed by the "Price of Pollution" report, the state's first-ever economic assessment of the true costs of environmentally triggered disease in Oregon