Inslee 2020

Washington's SB 5116 aligns the interests of utilities, energy developers, and unions behind the project of equitable decarbonization. They all benefit from it. That makes them allies in the fight, rather than at loggerheads, as they have so often been in the past.

This reform ought to be a key piece of climate progress in every state.

And it’s a hell of a feather in the cap of Gov. Jay Inslee, who’s running for president on climate change.

Because, as Jay Inslee says, we eliminate the old school fossil energy lobbyists by making clean energy the space for preventing cascading climate change disasters which cost our taxpayers so much more than the upfront reform that prevents climate change in the first place.

Inslee can now truthfully say that his state is a model of cutting-edge climate policy.

Governor Inslee is a doer, not a talker.

Our grandchildren will thank him and the rest of us for voting for him.