Youths Urge Legislators to Update Emission Targets, Press Event
Channel: Ed Mays
Date: 2016-09-07

Following the failure of Gov. Inslee's Clean Air Rule to effectively tackle WA state's runaway greenhouse gas emissions, a coalition of WA groups has come together to unveil legislation that would replace WA's current weak and unambitious emissions reductions targets. 

The new legislation would mean that emissions reductions targets would be based upon the best available science and mean that our state's reductions targets would actually protect our children's constitutional right to clean air and a stable climate -- unlike the current law. 

At the press conference, representatives of Plant for the Planet will also be mailing letters to the 124 most polluting companies in WA-state, asking if they will meet with them in order to discuss how they can voluntarily reduce their emissions in line with what physics and the science say we need. 

Speakers include Jill Mangaliam, Executive Director of Got Green, fourteen year old Gabe Mandell and sixteen year old Aji Piper of Plant for the Planet and Our Children's Trust lawyer, Andrea Rodgers.