Urge your Legislators to Lead on Climate

By: The Nature Conservancy in Washington Posted On: March 04, 2021 View: 263

Urge your Legislators to Lead on Climate

Sign the Petition:

Tell the Washington Legislature to pass HB 1091, the Clean Fuel Standard, and to Lead On Climate!

The need for clean air and healthier lungs has never been more important. We still have a window of time to address the climate crisis, but we need to take big steps every year.

We know that a Clean Fuel Standard is one of the fastest ways to reduce our transportation pollution and clean up our air.

The Legislature has stepped up before. In 2019, Washington passed the groundbreaking Clean Energy Transformation Act ensuring that our state will have 100% clean power by 2045. In 2020, we set ambitious and necessary greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. Still, we have yet to address our state’s largest and most problematic source of climate and air pollution: transportation emissions.

Now we need to build on that success. With our state on a pathway to a 100% clean grid, we can now electrify most of our transportation sector—reducing our climate impact and improving air quality. What we can’t electrify, we can transition to other sustainably produced cleaner fuels.

Sign the petition to encourage the Washington Legislature to commit to lead on climate and pass a Clean Fuel Standard in 2021.

Banner photo by Nikolaj Lasbo.

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