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Oregon’s climate change education bill advances further

Oregon’s House Bill 3365, which seeks to support climate change education in the Beaver State, passed the Senate on an 18-10 vote on June 12, 2025, having previously passed the House of Representatives on a 32-23 vote on April 17, 2025.

The Senate and the House versions of the bill differ somewhat. Both versions would require the state board of education to “include sufficient instruction on the causes and effects of climate change and strategies for mitigating, adapting to and strengthening community resilience to such causes and effects” in academic content standards during its regular review and revision of curriculum goals, performance indicators, and diploma requirements. But the House version (PDF) applies to “core subjects,” while the Senate version (PDF) applies only to “science, health, history, geography, economics and civics.” As originally introduced (PDF), the bill would have applied to all subjects for which academic content standards are established.

Either way, the bills are going to jam climate cult garbage into most subjects. If Bill buys 2 cheeseburgers every week, how many grandmas does he kill?

Want to Be a Climate Kid?

As a freshman, Hayden Crocker noticed that his high school in Solana Beach, California, had plenty of recycling bins around the campus but no recycling dumpsters in which to empty them. Where were all those cans, bottles, and papers going, he wondered?

Crocker asked his school administration about it. He learned that everything was ending up in the trash. So, he and some classmates called their city’s school district to complain. It worked, and soon thereafter, there were recycling dumpsters on every campus so the custodians could properly separate the recyclables from the waste.

Except, that has zero to do with ‘climate change’.

Here’s what student leaders from the East Coast to the West Coast have to say.

1. Start with your school, says Amaya Williams, a high school senior in Brooklyn. (I’m skipping the details, you can read if you want)

2. Join (or start) a club.

3. Suggest new tools. Teachers can use websites like the Climate Action Hub to get ideas for climate-focused lessons.

4. Tailor your solutions. At Go Greenish, Crocker and his team have taken a school-specific approach. Sustainability solutions can’t be one-size-fits-all, he says, because each school has a different set of resources, challenges, and needs.

5. Call your local officials, Spikes urges. Share your personal story with politicians, and tell them why climate education matters to you as a young person.

Start them young. Also, 6. make your own lives carbon neutral.