A fossil fuel-free future: Wash. Gov. Inslee -- 'We're going to build jobs like crazy'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The "long time coming" for energy conservation in Washington ended with arrival of four bills signed Tuesday by Gov. Jay Inslee, giving the Evergreen State America's strongest clean power standard, lower greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, and beginnings of a hybrid electric ferry fleet.

"O.K., let's go party on," shouted Inslee at an event Tuesday, atop a stage at Rainier Vista loaded down with Democratic politicians plus a line of little kids to create the TV image of a cleaner tomorrow.

The day marked the latest in a string of conservation triumphs for this Washington dating back a half-century to the 1968 North Cascades Act, which created a national park and two big wilderness areas.

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The energy transformation was developed in defiance of President Trump, an unreconstructed champion of fossil fuels. Trump recently claimed, falsely and without evidence, that wind turbines cause cancer.

"Wind turbines don't cause cancer, they create jobs," said Inslee, who has watched energy generating wind farms pop up across Eastern Washington.

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[Auggie]

1. I'm glad to hear he's hammering the "green energy means jobs" equation

The more specific, the better IMO.

[Hortensis]

2. Excellent! Wonder if his presidential run encouraged

or created interest that translated to power for the state legislature to pass these bills (after failing on some others). Whatever, let's hope Washington state's advances stimulate national interest in what Governor Inslee has to say.

[oasis]

3. Let's get this guy into the debates. nt