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Climate Leaders Live!

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Born during pandemic times, Climate Leaders Live! was a web video series hosted by Climate Solutions where we and collaborators, present conversations, policy deep dives, and explorations of how we can build a better future together. We’ll hear from organizations, businesses, elected officials, and community leaders in public health, environmental justice and more—leaders who are thinking big and working on different approaches to accelerate our transition to an equitable, just, and 100% clean economy.Join us throughout the year and learn more about real climate solutions.

Living cleaner: why cities are shifting to all-electric buildings

by Deepa Sivarajan on

We can make sure that our buildings are healthy and safe. A transition to all-electric will require our communities dispelling misinformation and speaking up for policies that move us off gas in an equitable and just way.

Why cap-and-invest? One strategy for carbon reduction

by Vlad Gutman-Britten on

Climate Solutions' approach to the Climate Commitment Act, Governor Inslee’s proposed cap-and-invest system, and other systems like it

Washington's long-term growth planning must consider climate change

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Prepared testimony supporting HB 1099, revising Washington's Growth Management Act to consider climate response in long-term regional planning

Is Oregon's clean energy transition on track?

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Join our discussion exploring what powers our energy system today, where the trends are headed, and it all means for an energy-smart, climate-safe future for Oregon.

High hopes and great expectations: a political shift on climate

by Jonathan Lawson on

Washington's legislative session begins. So does the Biden administration.

Cutting pollution with clean fuels: a top climate priority for Washington

by Leah Missik on

Right now, Washington is a lonely outlier on the West coast: the only state that is not benefiting from a Clean Fuel Standard.

The Clean Fuel Standard gets its first virtual hearing. Be "there."

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This year's legislative session is taking place online—but you can still sign in to testify, or to register your support for climate action. We'll keep you informed!

2021: Action time for climate in the Washington Legislature

by Vlad Gutman-Britten on

Naysayers will claim that this is not the time for climate action in Washington, not with COVID, racial injustice, and economic recovery on the agenda. But we don’t need to choose between our major priorities: we can achieve climate progress, recover from COVID impacts, and fight systemic racism all at the same time.

Oregon's Environmental Quality Commission chooses industry over communities to develop air pollution regulations

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The EQC has decided to stack the cap-and-reduce rulemaking advisory committee with fossil fuel and big business interests.

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Earth Week in a time of monsters

“The old world is dying,” Antonio Gramsci wrote in 1930, “and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” Today’s intersection of monstrous planetary crises has a name and a face: the Trump administration, with fossil fuel interests pulling strings behind the scenes.