Emotions run high after climate bill is declared dead
Gov. Kate Brown speaks to climate activists rallying outside of the Capitol on Tuesday after the Senate President announced their landmark climate legislation was dead. (Claire Withycombe/Oregon Capital Bureau)
SALEM — Seven minutes.
That’s all it took for Senate President Peter Courtney to thrust the already-tense Capitol into sheer chaos Tuesday.
Senate Republicans have vacated the Capitol in protest of landmark legislation to cap the state’s greenhouse gas emissions, making the building a tinderbox sensitive…
