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This year, you helped us fight like our lives depended on it. Together, we won.

2025 was supposed to be the year the fossil fuel industry finally got everything it wanted. With Donald Trump in office and protections being rolled back at every turn, the fossil fuel industry entered the year full of confidence and ready to go on the offensive.

But at Breach, we don’t believe in standing down. We believe in getting our hands dirty and grinding out victories against the odds.

In a political moment designed to make climate action feel impossible, we did the only thing we know how to do: we organized, we resisted, and we won… again and again.
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Here’s what you helped make happen this year:

✅ Your support held Zenith accountable.
Portlanders mobilized last winter to stop the City from granting a new Land Use Compatibility Statement (LUCS) to Zenith after a historic fine from Oregon DEQ ([link removed]) . But Mayor Wilson and his city administrators rushed an approval ([link removed]) over the objections of thousands of Portland residents. So, we protested ([link removed]) , organized, supported a lawsuit ([link removed]) , and continued to work to protect Portlanders and our environment. The Oregon Court of Appeals just issued an important procedural ruling in favor of community scrutiny
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In March, we worked with Portland City Council to pass the Zenith accountability and oversight resolution ([link removed]) – the first major policy action taken by our new City Council. In addition to demanding important investigations into Zenith that we continue to watchdog ([link removed]) , 11 out of 12 City Councilors voted to declare ([link removed]) what we all knew to be true: “the process for Zenith’s 2022 LUCS substantially undermined public confidence in the City’s administrative apparatus by creating the appearance of impropriety[.]”

With your ongoing support, we will make sure that backroom dealings benefitting the fossil fuel industry are a thing of the past.

✅ Your support is revitalizing the movement against gas in Oregon’s buildings.

In February, Breach supported on-the-ground organizers in the city of Ashland, who successfully pushed ([link removed]) their City Council to pass a fee on new gas construction. On the heels of this victory, Breach is working with Bend ([link removed]) residents to pass a similar policy in their city. Meanwhile, Breach and the Fossil Free Eugene coalition are continuing to push the City of Eugene and the Eugene Water Electricity Board to lead with strong people and policies to achieve a rapid, equitable energy transition and get Eugene’s climate goals back on track ([link removed]) .

✅ You helped demolish greenwashing and false solutions in the halls of power.

We used Portland’s new City Council structure to hold hearings to debunk fossil fuel industry greenwashing ([link removed]) around so-called “renewable fuels” and expose the gas industry’s false solutions playbook ([link removed]) .

When a fossil fuel industry-dominated advisory group demanded that Portland weaken its own renewable fuel rules, we made sure ([link removed]) that the city didn’t bow to pressure from the fossil industry while continuing to hold the line on our concerns that these fuels are dangerous and do not actually result in the claimed emissions reductions.

✅ Your support ensured Multnomah County’s Climate Justice Plan and Office of Sustainability are well funded.

When Multnomah County Commissioners proposed big cuts to the Office of Sustainability ([link removed]) , we came for the fight ([link removed]) and kept vital climate justice work funded ([link removed]) and frontline voices centered.

✅ Your support is moving Portland’s Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub policy toward real transformation.

We organized with partners to push staff ([link removed]) to propose a landmark policy ([link removed]) to the Planning Commission:
* No increased storage capacity for fossil fuels, renewable fuels, sustainable aviation fuel, or other dangerous liquid fuel solutions; and
* A liquid fuel storage drawdown plan and mandatory seismic retrofits to reduce existing seismic risks

On December 16, we’ll be at the Planning Commission hearing to rally ([link removed]) and testify ([link removed]) for even more. We will keep fighting until we get the safety and environmental protection we need and deserve.
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This is what momentum looks like.

None of this was given. All of it was taken through relentless organizing, legal strategy, community mobilization, and the kind of stubborn hope that refuses to quit. Against all odds, in a year with federal invasions and crushing budget deficits, we kept moving forward on crucial climate and safety issues.

You can help us keep winning.

We’re gearing up for 2026 with bigger fights on the horizon. The fossil fuel industry isn’t slowing down under Trump and neither are we.

Our work is powered by people who believe that another world is possible, and who are willing to fight for it. Without your support, this work doesn’t happen.

Donate today to help Breach Collective keep building power, winning justice, and making the impossible inevitable ([link removed]) .
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