WHEREAS continually increasing greenhouse gas emissions and reliance on single-occupancy vehicle use are unsustainable long-term trends for reducing impacts and slowing our climate crisis; and WHEREAS 2021-2022 HB 1099 had proposed to reduce such...
Whereas in their February report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that to hold warming to “well below” 2°C, while “working to limit it to...
Support a Program to Prepare Students to Vote and Encourage Voter Registration for Youth in High School WHEREAS, democracy in the United States is in serious danger, and WHEREAS, the youth of this country...
The Washington State Progressive Caucus proudly endorses Leah Griffin for State Representative for Washington’s 34th Legislative District. To learn more about Leah’s campaign, visit Leah Griffin for State Representative
Learn more about Jason’s campaign at Call for Congress 2022.
Resolution Against HB 1750, authorizing an agricultural employer to select any 12 weeks in a calendar year as special circumstance weeks for labor demand, during which in each of the selected 12 weeks, the...
WHEREAS statewide “advisory votes” are not real ballot measures, but rather anti-tax propaganda created by Tim Eyman to look like ballot measures, and are a barrier to securing more robust participation because they confuse...
WHEREAS transportation is the sector with the highest greenhouse gas emissions in Washington State’s economy1 (accounting for 44.9% of the state’s total emissions in 2018) and the state’s emissions reduction goals won’t be achieved...
WHEREAS In the United States, general aviation piston-driven aircraft are now the largest source of lead emitted to the atmosphere 1, and WHEREAS researchers found that elevated lead concentrations impair children’s IQ and, even...
WHEREAS Washington State’s population is expected to reach 10 million by mid-century according to the Office of Financial Management forecast1, and WHEREAS urban sprawl encroaches on farmlands, forests, shrub-steppe and other critical habitats, the...
