Climate Commitment Act

(Runtime 1:04)Nestled near a Starbucks and several banks in downtown Yakima is a stone church that’s nearly 140 years old. Even though the building has…

(Runtime 3:52)Phuong Brown lives in Walla Walla, in the 1890s house in which her late husband was born.And, though her gas furnace and air conditioner…

(Runtime 1:06)The Washington State Department of Health has allocated $750,000 through the Climate and Health Adaptation Initiative Community Capacity…

Washington Rep. Steve Tharinger of the 24th district became intimately acquainted with levee setbacks when he discovered the levee protecting his house on the lower Dungeness River was not only not protecting his house, but harming the ecosystem too.“I sold my house and the five acres in a barn we had, so that we'd have more room to move that levee back and give the river more room,” Tharinger said.

The Move Ahead Washington transportation package was announced February 8.

Gov. Jay Inslee signed the Climate Commitment Act, environmental justice legislation, a clean fuels standard and bills related to reducing Washington’s single-use plastic waste and hydrofluorocarbon pollution.