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Oregon governor takes sweeping action to cut global warming

by Associated Press
| March 10, 2020 12:05 PM

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — In an end run around Republican legislators, Oregon's Democratic governor ordered the state on Tuesday to lower greenhouse gas emissions, directing a state agency to set and enforce caps on pollution from industry and transportation fuels.

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