Washington Senate Democrats wrapped up the 2020 legislative session by handing veto power to a small minority of its caucus, and failing to take action to cut transportation pollution—ignoring a priority of 66% of WA voters. “Climate delay is just as bad as denial. This year’s legislative session was a comprehensive failure to act on climate,” […]

It’s no surprise that Washingtonians care about the climate and environmental health. Now, a new poll shows that by a dramatic margin, we also want our lawmakers to take action to reduce the climate-harming pollution that comes from our cars, trucks, and other forms of fossil-fuelled transportation. These findings, from the latest Crosscut Elway Poll […]

Excerpt from op-ed in Dec 18-23 issue of Real Change: We all use transportation to take us places — work, errands, celebrations, important appointments — and we all rely on a variety of public transit and personal vehicles. We all deserve to move safely, freely and efficiently; there’s no reason we shouldn’t also have a […]

Heavy-duty vehicles, like public transit buses, only make up 5 percent of all vehicles on the road, but nationally their pollution makes up 25% of the transportation sector’s annual contribution to climate change. Thankfully, a new report (available online here) from the Union of Concerned Scientists shows that battery electric buses, in all parts of […]

Ever think about how much pollution 365,000 cars can produce in a year? Almost 1.7 million metric tons of greenhouse gases, and good statewide policy has kept that massive amount of bad stuff from filling our air since Clean Fuel Standard began in 2016. In 2017 alone, the program prevented 929,105 tons, according to recent […]