Above, speaking in Baku, Azerbaijan, Governor Jay Inslee of Washington State makes the case that climate and clean energy action will continue in the US despite the inauguration of Donald Trump.
Voters firmly rejected an initiative that was designed to kill Washington’s fledgling carbon market.
Early election results Tuesday evening showed 62% against the measure.
Redmond hedge fund manager Brian Heywood dumped millions into Initiative 2117 to take down the carbon market along with a slate of other conservative initiatives that dominated the state’s political landscape this year.
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Below, I attended the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association annual meeting on Saturday, in Lansing, Michigan, and spoke to Ed Rivet, who has been a friend and colleague for a number of years in supporting clean energy, despite the fact that Ed is a conservative Republican, and I’m, well, not.
Ed gave a similar assessment to Inslee, and fleshed out his reasoning.
Another known non-liberal, the vlogger known as Mr Global shoots down a dearly held denialist tenet, that “Drill, Baby, Drill” is the answer to a whole range of purported economic ills.