Portland Tribune: Another showdown looms in Salem between Big Oil and environmentalists, but this time environmentalists appear to have the upper hand.
Heavy lobbying last year by the Western States Petroleum Association helped stall the state's Clean Fuels Program, which would require a 10 percent reduction in carbon emissions from gasoline and diesel fuel over the next decade. But environmentalists like their chances of passing the program in the 2015 session that opens Jan. 12, after Democrats picked up two...