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Oregon’s largest gas utility is facing yet another lawsuit this week, just days after Multnomah County added the company to a lawsuit related to 2021 heat dome deaths.

A year after the failure of its natural gas ban, the City of Eugene is looking for new ways to reduce carbon emissions.

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality’s Climate Protection Program failed to comply, “or even substantially comply,” with disclosure requirements when adopting rules under the federal Clean Air Act, the Oregon Court of Appeals said.

Oregon’s utility regulators on Tuesday told the state’s largest gas supplier, NW Natural, that its long term plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in coming years is insufficient to meet state climate goals.

A signature-gathering effort aimed at forcing a public vote on Eugene’s new natural gas ordinance has been successful.

An effort by the gas utility Northwest Natural to overturn Eugene’s new natural gas ordinance is one step closer to reaching the ballot.

About 150 Eugene students marched out of their schools Friday as part of the 2023 Global Climate Strike. They converged on the downtown to protest corporate efforts to overturn the city’s natural gas ordinance.

The gas utility Northwest Natural is so far the only funder of an effort to overturn Eugene’s new natural gas ordinance.

Last week (Feb. 19, 2021), the city of Eugene allowed a deadline to renew a franchise agreement with NW Natural gas to lapse. City leaders want to…