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The Nature Conservancy projects the bill could fuel 10,600 jobs a year in the state for the next decade.

Such actions support the city government's vow to become carbon-neutral

Joining other major municipalities across the country, the Washington, DC, City Council has unanimously voted to ban the use of fossil fuels, including

The legislature passed Gov. Inslee's Climate Commitment Act in 2021, which is basically a cap-and-trade plan that will result in huge jumps at the pump.

A potentially dramatic hike in the cost of gasoline has Gov. Jay Inslee at odds with an analysis released Tuesday by the conservative-leaning Washington Policy Center (WPC).

In Seattle neighborhoods historically devoid of reliable government-sanctioned air monitors, community moss sampling has successfully led to new air monitoring sites in pollution hotspots.

The legislature passed Gov. Inslee's Climate Commitment Act in 2021, which is basically a cap-and-trade plan that will result in huge jumps at the pump.

In April 2021, the Biden administration announced a new greenhouse gas emissions reduction target for the United States. In the accompanying

Last spring Washington State passed a comprehensive Cap-and-Invest program as part of the Climate Commitment Act (CCA), the second state in the United States to have an economy-wide program for CO2 cap-and-trade program, which they named “Cap-and-Invest”. This followed a fierce political battle where progressive environmental activists were pitted against one another, for and

Please Note: The pay listed above includes the 3.25% pay increase that will go into effect on July 1, 2022.  Per Governor Inslee’s Proclamation 21-14.2 (Download PDF reader), Washington State employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.