Posted on 01/25/2020 7:51:53 AM PST by PROCON
OLYMPIA, Wash — Several lawmakers, including Spokane Rep. Marcus Riccelli, want the state to declare a “climate emergency” and give the governor the power to declare an energy emergency and limit greenhouse gas emissions.
House Bill 2829 was read for the first time in Olympia Friday.
It states that a climate emergency “threatens our state, region, nation, civilization, humanity, and the natural world.”
The lawmakers state that the effects are already being felt and that they “will only intensify without swift intervention.”
Those impacts include more intense and frequent wildfires; glacier loss; flooding; drought; dwindling fish runs; insect die-off; Orca and other species on the brink of extinction; extreme temperatures and other issues.
The bill says that this recognition gives the governor the power to declare an energy emergency, giving him the authority to exercise emergency powers to limit energy use and the emission of greenhouse gases. Those powers already exist under a law passed in 1985.
Friday, the bill was referred to the House Environment and Energy Committee.
It was introduced by Rep. Steve Kirby (D) from Tacoma. Other lawmakers on the bill are Riccelli, and Reps. Gael Tarleton (D), Gerry Pollett (D) and Nicole Macri (D), all from the Seattle area.
You may remember that Washington State's Governor, Jay Inslee, was a democrat presidential candidate whose sole issue was the 'Climate Emergency'.
My once great, conservative (Yes, really) state has been taken over by the crazies.
Dems keep repeating “Mueller’s findings said very disturbing things about Trump” and now “The House proved beyond any doubt that Trump is guilty and should be removed. There is no longer any doubt about that.” OVER AND OVER.
So where are our TV and radio ads saying:
Climate change is not cause by man.
“”””””” giving him the authority to exercise emergency powers to limit energy use and the emission of greenhouse gases.”””
You will get my thermostat when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
It would seem that we can use one to fix the other.
For the past couple of years we have been researching the best places to bail out to. My wife and I were born and raised in Washington but the insanity from the Governor, both houses, and the State Supreme Court all now being controlled by leftist loons, is the writing on the wall. We are going to have to spend our goden years somewhere else.
“want the state to declare a “climate emergency” and give the governor the power to declare an energy emergency and limit greenhouse gas emissions.”
And whats going to happen when a bunch of people are put out of work because of these morons “emergency”?
Meanwhile they tweet on their smart phones about their support for all sorts of faggotry and gender confusion.
We’ve got a potential pandemic on our hands, and they’re still focused on this climate BS.
Didn’t Seattle just get a good rinsing in the last few months?
LOL. They already have your toilets, faucets, and lightbulbs. Can the day be far off when they want to control our thermostats?
“We’ve got a potential pandemic on our hands, and they’re still focused on this climate BS.”
I agree. It’s about to get real, very soon...
And California will regret having all those homeless with low immunity defecating on their streets...
Are they handing brown shirts to go with these policies?
Have you thought about Oregon? /S
If Hitler got into this phony Climate Change Gig he would have been able to take over the World without firing a Shot.
Don’t move to Idaho, all of California is coming soon.
https://www.businessinsider.com/boise-idaho-fastest-growing-city-in-us-photos-growth-cost-2019-12
https://www.idahostatesman.com/latest-news/article210319834.html
Of course they’ll blame the pandemic on Climate Change, so they’ll have that covered.
Higher taxes on evil corporations and "rich" people who aren't paying their fair share. Rich being anyone with a job, evil being anyone who doesn't buy an exemption. The liberals never discard a plan.
Unfortunately, I have known Steve Kirby for decades. He started out as a city councilman. He has always been a good for nothing mental midget. And that is an insult to mental midgets everywhere.
That is exactly what they want. more people out of work and on the Dole as easier to control that way.
The Cascade quake can’t come soon enough.
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