Portland, Oregon Plans To Cut Energy Use By 50% In Next 15 Years

Testimony at Portland, Oregon's City Hall by experts on the energy industry is helping to shape a policy citywide intended to cut all energy use, gas, electricity, etc. by a full 50% in the next 15 years or so.

This has to be one of the most sweeping policies at the city level of any city in the U.S. Meanwhile the Governor of Oregon is pushing for new mandates for energy conservation at the state level.

Oregon's reputation as a "green state' and ecology friendly in the 60's and 70's is apparently finding new ways to maintain that reputation in the present and in the future.