Resolution in Support of Governor Inslee’s Carbon Pollution Accountability Act
WHEREAS the release of carbon dioxide and other pollutants is causing devastating and perhaps irreversible harm in our state and around the world, including increasing global temperatures; declining snowpack that reduces water supplies; more frequent and more destructive forest fires; acidification of our waters threatening shellfish populations; and a dangerous…
Revised: Oil Transportation Safety
My bedroom window overlooks the Auburn valley where the BNSF rail yard is sited. I often hear them switching the trains at night. If you’ve ever heard a mile-long train change direction, you’d remember the sound: a long, low boom. I’m worried that one day soon, I might hear an…
Koch Brothers and Climate Change Awareness
Every one of us in the Western world has contributed to climate change. – Bill McKibben Recently, I organized a couple of events with the goal of showing people how their choices and actions can make a real difference in the effort to end our dependence on fossil fuels like…
Resolution to Restore GED Fairness in Washington State
WHEREAS more than one million students attend public schools in Washington State, comprised of about 80,000 students at each grade level and WHEREAS only 60,000 of theses students graduate from Washington high schools each year, leaving about 20,000 students annually who do not receive the help they need to graduate…