Editing Ron Wyden (section)

====Climate change====
On April 6, 2011, Wyden voted against limiting the EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=1&vote=00054|title=U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 112th Congress – 1st Session, Vote Number 54, 2011-04-06.|website=senate.gov|access-date=October 2, 2016|archive-date=October 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022102753/http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=1&vote=00054|url-status=live}}</ref> On March 22, 2013, he voted against [[concurrent resolution]] creating a point of order that would make it harder for Congress to put a [[carbon price|price on carbon]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.vis.org/toolbox/VoteDetail.aspx?vid=15678|title=Detail for 2013 Senate Roll Call Vote 59|publisher=Voter Information Services|website=vis.org|access-date=October 2, 2016|archive-date=January 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124032433/https://www.vis.org/toolbox/VoteDetail.aspx?vid=15678|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00059|title=U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 113th Congress – 1st Session, Vote Number 59, 2013-03-22.|website=senate.gov|access-date=October 2, 2016|archive-date=October 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022102757/http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00059|url-status=live}}</ref> In November 2015, he voted in support of the Obama administration's [[Clean Power Plan]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=1&vote=00307#top|title=U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 114th Congress – 1st Session, Vote Number 307, 2015-11-17.|website=senate.gov|access-date=October 2, 2016|archive-date=November 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109030158/http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=1&vote=00307#top|url-status=live}}</ref>

In May 2014, in response to the [[National Climate Assessment]], Wyden said that the "report adds to the ever-growing body of scientific evidence and on-the-ground proof that the effects of climate change are already being felt in every region of the United States".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-national-climate-assessment-confirms-need-to-act-on-climate-change|title=Wyden: National Climate Assessment Confirms Need to Act on Climate Change|publisher=Office of Senator Ron Wyden|website=wyden.senate.gov|date=May 6, 2014|access-date=October 2, 2016|archive-date=November 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109184345/https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-national-climate-assessment-confirms-need-to-act-on-climate-change|url-status=live}}</ref> In June 2014, he said that "climate change is the most important environmental challenge of our time".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-inaction-on-climate-change-is-no-longer-an-option|title=Wyden: Inaction on Climate Change is No Longer an Option|publisher=Office of Senator Ron Wyden|website=wyden.senate.gov|date=June 2, 2014|access-date=October 2, 2016|archive-date=November 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109012407/https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-inaction-on-climate-change-is-no-longer-an-option|url-status=live}}</ref>

In October 2017, Wyden was one of 19 senators to sign a letter to [[Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency|EPA administrator]] [[Scott Pruitt]], who had been appointed by [[Donald Trump]], questioning Pruitt's decision to repeal the [[Clean Power Plan]]. The letter asserted that the repeal proposal used "mathematical sleights of hand to over-state the costs of industry compliance with the 2015 Rule and understate the benefits that will be lost if the 2017 repeal is finalized" and that denying science and fabricating math would fail to "satisfy the requirements of the law, nor will it slow the increase in frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, the inexorable rise in sea levels, or the other dire effects of global warming that our planet is already experiencing."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/357446-19-sens-question-epa-methodology-behind-clean-power-plan-repeal/|title=19 sens question EPA methodology behind Clean Power Plan repeal|first=Julia|last=Manchester|work=The Hill|date=October 26, 2017|access-date=September 27, 2020|archive-date=February 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210206194428/https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/357446-19-sens-question-epa-methodology-behind-clean-power-plan-repeal|url-status=live}}</ref>

In November 2018, Wyden was one of 25 Democratic senators to cosponsor a resolution specifying key findings of the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change report and National Climate Assessment. The resolution affirmed the senators' acceptance of the findings and their support for bold action toward [[Climate change mitigation|addressing climate change]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ktvz.com/news/merkley-resolution-urges-quick-climate-change-action/895812840|title=Merkley resolution urges quick climate change action|date=November 27, 2018|work=KTVZ|access-date=February 6, 2019|archive-date=February 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207020905/https://www.ktvz.com/news/merkley-resolution-urges-quick-climate-change-action/895812840|url-status=dead}}</ref>