The Democratic governor’s environmental initiatives have had a cold reception, even in his blue state.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee speaks in March with victims of last year’s Woolsey wildfire in the Seminole Springs mobile home park, west of Los Angeles. By Joshua Partlow Joshua Partlow National and foreign affairs. Former correspondent focusing on Latin America and the Middle East. Email Bio Follow May 17 at 6:00 AM OLYMPIA, Wash. — Gov.
Inslee’s path so far suggests that even a seasoned politician and environmentalist will face a thorny tangle of resistance to any effort to wean the American economy off fossil fuels. Inslee says that the planet demands such changes and that great economic opportunities lie along the way.He will need that optimism to carry him forward in a crowded presidential field where other Democratic hopefuls have so far garnered more attention.
His long record has been marked with more climate defeats than victories. Over his past six years as governor, the push by Inslee and other environmentalists to reduce emissions by taxing carbon has repeatedly fallen short, defeated by a Republicans in the state legislature and voters who feared hikes in gas prices. His attempt to cap pollutants by executive order was blocked by a judge and is now under deliberation at the state Supreme Court.
In other ways, there’s more momentum to tackle the issue than ever before. Polls show a growing majority of Americans are concerned about climate change and the harm it causes. Young and liberal voters are energized by the prospect of ambitious calls to action. Candidates beyond Inslee — such as former vice president Joe Biden and former congressman Beto O’Rourke — are saying global warming is the gravest threat the country faces.
During college at the University of Washington, Inslee visited Sweden as part of the first United Nations Conference on the Human Environment — a trip he credits with stoking his interest in clean energy. He became a lawyer in eastern Washington and won a seat in the state legislature before joining Congress in 1993.
“A huge takeaway of the book is how much stuff hasn’t moved,” said Hendricks, now an adviser on Inslee’s campaign. “We’ve been saying for 20 years that we’ve really got to move in the next 10 years. And over the intervening years, the data’s coming in worse and more extreme.” “This truly has been an epic legislative session of unprecedented scope and dimension of achievements,” Inslee, charged with enthusiasm, told the crowd. “There is a time to be humble. And this is not one of them.”In his seventh year as governor, he notched his first major legislative victories on climate change.
“Just because Washington is left-of-center on a lot of issues doesn’t mean that this is easy,” said Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon , one of Inslee’s environmental allies in the legislature. “I don’t think we would be passing bills of this magnitude if we didn’t have a governor who was prioritizing and shepherding these things through the process at every step of the way.”
“I think that Washington state has been very successful over the past six years economically, and I think that’s because Jay Inslee’s policies have failed not because Jay Inslee has managed to get his agenda accomplished,” Ericksen said in an office decorated with Trump campaign hats.
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