Issue Position: Protecting and Enhancing the Environment

Issue Position

For the last nine years, I have worked for Climate Solutions whose mission is to find practical and profitable solutions to global warming. More and more we are seeing severe weather events somewhere in the world that wreak havoc. Here in the Northwest, the largest fires on record raged throughout the summer and drought threatens our water supply. Despite the clarity from our tumwaterwebsite1.jpgscientific community that we are headed toward catastrophic climate change and that a rapid transition away from dirty fuels is essential, our state legislature still has not enacted a cap on carbon pollution. It is well past time for action on this issue. If elected, I intend to do everything in my power to speed the transition to a clean energy economy, rich with family wage jobs.

We need to work together toward rapidly transitioning to 100% Clean Energy with policies that increase shared transit options, reduce the carbon intensity of our fuels over time, make our homes and commercial buildings more energy efficient while electrifying everything possible and moving toward a clean electric grid as quickly as possible. We live in one of the most beautiful places in the world, but it is endangered. I would work to restore forest health, to protect our precious Puget Sound and our rivers and lakes and to enhance outdoor recreation.

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