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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed May 8, 2019, 05:51 PM May 2019

A fossil fuel-free future: Wash. Gov. Inslee -- 'We're going to build jobs like crazy'

The "long time coming" for energy conservation in Washington ended with arrival of four bills signed Tuesday by Gov. Jay Inslee, giving the Evergreen State America's strongest clean power standard, lower greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, and beginnings of a hybrid electric ferry fleet.

"O.K., let's go party on," shouted Inslee at an event Tuesday, atop a stage at Rainier Vista loaded down with Democratic politicians plus a line of little kids to create the TV image of a cleaner tomorrow.

The day marked the latest in a string of conservation triumphs for this Washington dating back a half-century to the 1968 North Cascades Act, which created a national park and two big wilderness areas.

But the "greening" of Washington has taken a sharp turn since days when both Republican (Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford) and Democratic (Lyndon Johnson, Bill Clinton Barack Obama) presidents backed preservation of the state's "crown jewels"

https://www.seattlepi.com/local/politics/article/A-fossil-fuel-free-future-Inslee-We-re-going-13827128.php?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletterspi&utm_term=spi

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A fossil fuel-free future: Wash. Gov. Inslee -- 'We're going to build jobs like crazy' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2019 OP
His message resonates with me. saidsimplesimon May 2019 #1

saidsimplesimon

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1. His message resonates with me.
Wed May 8, 2019, 05:58 PM
May 2019

I've sent a small donation hoping he could at least make it to the primary stage. It is very unlikely he will win but it would give him a stage for his message, for a call to higher duty, saving the planet.

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