What Biden's agenda on the environment could mean for the Pacific Northwest
From reintroduction of the grizzly bear to its wild North Cascades redoubt to attacking climate change, a wide range of environmental policies could see a new direction in the Pacific Northwest under a Biden administration.
For starters, government and nonprofit policy leaders say they are looking forward to a return to science as a basis for environmental policymaking. Perhaps nowhere is this more true than on climate warming.
Gov. Jay Inslee has championed Washington climate and energy policies sharply at odds with a president who dismissed the threats posed by greenhouse gas emissions in a warming world.
Inslee now has a powerful ally in President-elect Joe Biden. Biden’s campaign platform calls for dramatically stepping up a U.S. transition away from fossil fuels to set the nation on a path to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by midcentury, which means that whatever carbon pollution is emitted into the atmosphere is offset by other measures. And, since the election, there has been speculation that Inslee will be asked to join the new Democratic administration to help Biden pull off this dramatic course correction in climate policy.
Much more: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/what-bidens-agenda-on-the-environment-could-mean-for-the-pacific-northwest/
Gray wolves could regain federal protection under a Biden administration. Wolves remain protected in Washington as a state-designated endangered species. This wolf is fitted with a radio collar and was photographed in the Teanaway area of Washington’s Central Cascades in Washington state. (Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP)
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And that includes environmental advocate Gov. Inslee. 
And Lt. Gov Denny Heck sure has the experience and the values, and it's pretty cool that you know him! 
