Washington State Announces Effort To Take Climate Fight Into Its Own Hands | ThinkProgress:
"Even as a climate change stalemate persists in Washington, D.C., the other Washington is embarking on a broad-based effort to reduce carbon pollution and expand the use of clean energy."
“This is the right time to act, the right place to act, and we are the right people to act,” Inslee said in announcing the executive order. "
Washington always has been more progressive than Oregon, going all the way back to the Territorial days. Many Oregonians deny history and reality and believe otherwise because we have a bottle bill. Lots of smugness in this state.