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Diverse Coalition Urging Passage Of First Ever Climate Legislation


Diverse Coalition Urging Passage Of First Ever Climate Legislation
Business, Environmental, Labor & Social Justice Groups Join Together on SB 5126
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SEATTLE, March 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/  A diverse group of business leaders, social justice advocates, environmentalists, labor and philanthropists are joining together to call on the Washington State Legislature to pass the Climate Commitment Act, the state s largest investment in creating a clean economy while generating billions of dollars that will be fairly and equitably invested across the state. The bill is being heard today in the Washington State Senate Ways and Means Committee.  ....

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Washington climate activists disagree about how to cut carbon


Updated Friday, March 12 at 4:40 p.m.
Jill Mangaliman, executive director of Got Green Seattle, photographed at the environmental nonprofit organization’s headquarters in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood on March 11, 2021. (Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut)
Competing efforts to enact landmark climate change legislation have fractured the state’s environmental coalition and Olympia’s all-powerful Democratic caucus, with some activists arguing that the proposal pushed by Gov. Jay Inslee shortchanges minority and low-income communities.
Questions of equity and trust have prompted a prominent environmental-justice coalition to oppose a cap-and-trade bill requested by Inslee. The
Washington Climate Commitment Act, which would create a greenhouse gas market in Washington similar to one in California, is supported by the state’s most influential environmental groups, as well as fossil-fuel giant BP, operator of the state’s largest oil refinery. ....

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