A commitment to climate solutions
"The West Coast has everything it takes to deliver climate solutions and build a sustainable prosperity. WCI should unleash that economic power with a clear, comprehensive commitment to get the job done — no loopholes, no giveaways and full coverage of the economy. When it does, Washington can deliver real climate solutions, and our economy will be on a path toward recovery from our crippling fossil-fuel dependence."
With $4-a-gallon gas, wars in the Middle East, and accelerating climate change, it's no wonder we're seeing bipartisan support for ending our addiction to oil.
Fossil-fuel dependence is already costing too much — draining more than $50 million per day from Washington's economy as it disrupts our climate, causing more intense floods and forest fires.
Expanding oil drilling isn't an answer. That's like treating an addiction by increasing the drug supply. Instead, Washington can become a leader in the transition to a prosperous, sustainable future through the Western Climate Initiative (WCI), a coalition of seven states and four Canadian provinces working to reduce their global-warming pollution and build their clean-energy economies...
