A bill to get the Oregon State Treasury to pause new pension investments in private assets and equity funds that are invested in fossil fuel companies received hundreds of letters of support this week ...

Democratic lawmakers and environmentalists are calling on the Oregon Treasury to pause new pension investments into private assets and private equity funds invested in fossil fuel companies and ...

Nearly 300 people submitted testimony in support of the Pause Act to stop new Treasury investments in private fossil fuel funds Oregon Capital Chronicle is part of States Newsroom, a network of news ...

In 2024, former Oregon state Treasurer Tobias Read unveiled a plan to make the state’s public employees retirement fund investments achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Last September, Gov. Tina Kotek ...

School districts, cities, counties and other public employers in Oregon have tried to ease the financial burden of the state’s retirement system for public employees. But PERS — the Public Employees ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Oregon school districts are projected to pay $670 million more to the state’s public employee pension program over the next two years, potentially wiping out all increases to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon lawmakers passed a bill on Monday, directing the Oregon State Treasury to transition investments in the public employee retirement fund towards clean energy. House Bill ...

If you get confused about Oregon’s Public Employees Retirement System — known as PERS — you are not alone. Even people paid to follow it can get lost in the complexity or, at least, joke about it. “I ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon State Treasurer Elizabeth Steiner is calling on the Oregon legislature to pass a bill that directs the treasury to make “climate positive” investments in the Oregon ...

At a recent public meeting about the financial health of OPERF, the $100 billion Oregon Public Employees Retirement System Fund, an activist criticized the Oregon State Treasury for losing money when ...