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Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Farmers sued to get their climate data back, and won. What can we learn?
The Trump administration is attacking climate science - from scrubbing data farmers use for their crops to cutting personnel from the National Weather Service. They are dismantling the best tools we have for mitigating climate change. 'Climate change is not just a public health issue, it's not just about forest fires or drought,' says Fmr. Washington Governor Jay Inslee. 'It's about economics… This is going to cost Americans' bottom line.' Whether you are a farmer trying to protect your crops, a parent trying to protect your child from air or water pollution, a homeowner trying to keep your home safe from flood or fire… the only hope we have to protect ourselves starts with understanding the threats we face.
Bloomberg
13-05-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Former Governor Jay Inslee on Trump's Trade War, Eco Risks, Climate Change
Former three-term governor of Washington and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Jay Inslee joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily with Carol Massar and Matt Miller. (Source: Bloomberg)
CTV News
06-05-2025
- Politics
- CTV News
Washington State's Lt.-Gov. is in B.C., seeking deeper ties amid trade, Trump turmoil
Washington Lt.-Gov. Denny Heck speaks following the state of the state address from Gov. Jay Inslee during a joint legislative session at the Washington state capitol, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, in Olympia, Wash. (Lindsey Wasson / AP / The Canadian Press)
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Construction picking up at new Washington psychiatric hospital
A rendering shows the design of the new Western State Hospital, set to be completed between 2027 and 2029. (Image courtesy of HOK Architecture) Construction is ramping up at a new state psychiatric hospital as Washington works to meet continued demand for treatment of people accused of crimes. The state broke ground in October on the new 350-bed facility at Western State Hospital in Pierce County. Work began in December, but picked up last month and passersby will start to see the building develop in June, said state Department of Social and Health Services spokesperson Jessica Nelson. For years, the Department of Social and Health Services has been under court oversight to improve unconstitutionally long wait times for mental health treatment and evaluations for criminal defendants who are incompetent to stand trial. The new hospital is key to complying with a court-ordered settlement in the case known as Trueblood. Washington is required to conduct an evaluation within 14 days and offer inpatient competency restoration treatment within seven days. The state has long struggled to meet those guidelines and has paid hundreds of millions in fines as a result. At the groundbreaking for the new hospital in October, then-Gov. Jay Inslee noted the rise in need for these services over the past few years. 'This exponential growth was not sustainable unless we really put pedal to the metal on our building programs with what we're doing today,' Inslee said. 'So we have invested tremendous resources to respond to this tremendous challenge.' In February, the most recent month for which comprehensive state data is available, the average wait time for a jail-based evaluation was about 11 days. Inpatient evaluations took five to six days. Admissions for treatment took nearly seven days at Eastern State Hospital, near Spokane, and less than six days at Western State. In years past, this could take over a year. The new Western State Hospital will be the latest addition to the state's bed capacity. In 2023, the state acquired and opened a psychiatric hospital in Tukwila for patients under civil commitments, freeing up space for criminal defendants at Western State. Last year, the state added another 86 beds at Eastern and Western State hospitals. In their capital budget passed last weekend, state lawmakers included $282 million for the final phase of construction at the new hospital. The budget now sits on Gov. Bob Ferguson's desk. The hospital is aiming to help shift the focus at Western State more toward people entangled in the criminal justice system who need treatment and away from civil patients. Under that system, civil commitments would transfer to community-based facilities to get help. Construction is expected to be completed between 2027 and 2029. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
Washington Post
01-05-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Democrats can win over young Trump voters. Here's how.
Jay Inslee, a Democrat, was governor of Washington from 2013 to 2025. It is a rare moment when a single action can address two national crises. Now is such a moment, as we watch both the collapse of young Americans' support for constitutional and law-abiding leadership and an attack on our nation's efforts to fight climate change. Just 100 days into President Donald Trump's administration, it is painful to see the progress our nation has made against climate change being threatened by his assault on the protection of clean air and water. To combat this, we must turn around the dynamic that caused this crisis in the first place: the dramatic slide in young people's support for the Democratic candidate for president in 2024. The percentage of young voters who supported the Democrat fell by more than 20 points from 2020 to 2024, a massive hemorrhaging that Democrats must stanch. Fortunately, we have a solution that speaks to both the economic and lifestyle desires of our youth and clearly separates our party from the anti-science GOP. Democrats must embrace the virtues and benefits of clean energy and the need to defeat climate change. We need to be optimistic about our ability to build a brighter future for those with decades of life ahead of them — both because the opposition denies the threat on our doorstep and because we can create jobs while offering young Americans a better living through clean technology and the chance to invent the future. We can exercise that optimism because, although young people's declining support represents a remarkable swing that should alarm Democrats, it does not show an immutable partisan realignment. Gen Z did not embrace the GOP or Trump's far-right policies wholesale. Instead, the data paints a picture of an extremely fluid and disaffected generation — a must-win voting bloc enamored of neither party and desperate to upend a failed status quo. In post-election polls, young Trump voters overwhelmingly cited the economy as their top concern and were far more progressive than Trump's base on abortion, immigration and a range of other hot-button issues. In fact, nearly half of 18-to-29-year-old Trump voters said the government should be doing more to solve our problems, and 6 in 10 said they were concerned about the effects of climate change in their community. Young voters have expressed similar frustration in focus groups about the overlapping crises they confront: a spiraling cost-of-living crisis; an existential climate crisis; and political dysfunction that precludes us from tackling the first two. As Democrats consider how to present a compelling vision to the next generation, we should focus on the issue that simultaneously represents the greatest threat to them and the clearest delineation between the two parties. There are some Republicans, such as former senator Bill Frist (Tennessee) and former congressman Bob Inglis (South Carolina), who are farsighted on climate change, but unfortunately Trump's base still refuses to help find solutions. Until that changes, young voters should know that the Democratic Party is the only game in town. And we have the record to prove it. In 2021, as governor of Washington, I signed into law a landmark 'cap-and-invest' program requiring our largest polluters to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and purchase carbon allowances from the state. The billions of dollars in revenue raised now finance clean energy and climate investments statewide — from electrifying ferries and school buses to providing young people with free access to transit and working families with credits toward their electric bills — that are boosting economic opportunity. The next year, a Democratic Congress made historic investments in clean energy that spurred an American manufacturing renaissance, creating more than 400,000 well-paying jobs while curbing costs and pollution. Trump is on a warpath to destroy those gains, but he won't succeed if we all stand up to reject his cynicism. I know this is possible because I've lived it. Special interests tried to kill my climate law shortly after it took force, spending millions to get a repeal initiative on the 2024 ballot and bombard voters with dishonest ads. But the people spoke unequivocally, defeating the repeal initiative by a whopping 24 points. Moreover, Washington saw the smallest rightward shift of any state in 2024, with Democrats up and down the ballot notching victories even as the party suffered steep setbacks in other blue states. None of this means that embracing clean energy is a panacea or that the tasks before us are easy. But we must inspire young people to believe once again in what is possible — to see a future where upward mobility is accessible, climate action is achievable, and their leaders are bold champions for them.
