Tag: Permanent Defense

The coali­tion work­ing to defend the Cli­mate Com­mit­ment Act has been rak­ing in mon­ey and endorse­ments. That has right wing talk show hosts like John Carl­son wor­ried and exhort­ing lis­ten­ers to open their wallets.

“If I‑2117 pass­es, it would allow more pol­lu­tion and shift the bur­den of pay­ing for the impacts of pol­lu­tion onto com­mu­ni­ties, work­ers, and fam­i­lies — while cut­ting invest­ments in clean air and water, trans­porta­tion, wild­fire pre­ven­tion, and a lot more,” the coali­tion says. 

Ini­tia­tive 2117 would repeal the land­mark Cli­mate Com­mit­ment Act, one of the most impor­tant envi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion laws ever adopt­ed by Wash­ing­ton’s elect­ed representatives.

Ini­tia­tive 2113 would allow dan­ger­ous high speed police chas­es to resume by remov­ing rea­son­able safe­guards for pur­suits adopt­ed and sub­se­quent­ly revised by the Leg­is­la­ture in recent ses­sions in response to protests over unsafe, inequitable polic­ing in Wash­ing­ton State and across the country. 

Con­vinced that Demo­c­ra­t­ic Wash­ing­ton State law­mak­ers have over­reached, Repub­li­cans have made a big bet on a slate of ini­tia­tives that would repeal or roll back many pro­gres­sive laws. If they don’t get the out­comes they want, they will have spent a lot of mon­ey cre­at­ing fresh evi­dence those laws are popular.

Spon­sored by Repub­li­can State Par­ty Chair Jim Walsh, I‑2117 would repeal Wash­ing­ton’s land­mark Cli­mate Com­mit­ment Act and wreck the state’s plans to secure a just and respon­si­ble tran­si­tion to a clean ener­gy future. NPI con­sid­ers the ini­tia­tive a grave threat to Wash­ing­ton’s well-being and strong­ly oppos­es it.

A right wing group orga­nized and fund­ed by right wing mil­lion­aire Bri­an Hey­wood and front­ed by recent­ly elect­ed Wash­ing­ton State Repub­li­can Par­ty Chair Jim Walsh plans to begin sub­mit­ting sig­na­tures for a slate of ini­tia­tives to the 2024 Wash­ing­ton State Leg­is­la­ture lat­er this month.