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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: Oregon Must Stop Outsourcing Policymaking to California’s Unelected Bureaucrats
Description: Full text: At the end of last year, the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission adopted rules banning the sale of internal combustion cars by the year 2035. It’s not a stretch to say these rules will affect every single Oregon household and Oregon business.
Many Oregonians outraged by the ban have asked, “How can they do that?”
How they imposed the ban is even more outrageous than the ban itself.
Nearly 20 years ago, the Commission approved rules that tied Oregon’s low-emission vehicle rules to California’s rules. Put simply, whatever California does, Oregon has to do...