The Climate Commitment Act (CCA) makes big polluters pay for the harm they cause to our air, water, and communities. I-2117 would eliminate the CCA and ban Washington from ever creating something similar. Washington voters have long supported statewide efforts to protect our health climate-changing pollution. Initiative 2117 (I-2117) is a multi-millionaire funded initiative that seeks to overturn that progress. It would revoke the 2021 Climate Commitment Act that protects the air we breathe and the water we drink using funds raised by making polluters pay for the damage that they cause.
Voting no on I-2117 is critical for our environment and communities. Without the funds raised by the CCA, a huge number of programs would be terminated, threatened, or reduced, including restoring fisheries and shorelines, wildfire resilience, preserving natural lands, school-based bike programs, free bus fare for students, updating our ferry system, and increasing the sustainable supply of water. The revenue from the Climate Commitment Act also creates good-paying, local jobs like making homes more energy-efficient, and installing heat pumps and solar panels. Ending this program would result in losing many of these good jobs and prevent the creation of more of them.
Behind this initiative is Republican mega-donor Brian Heywood, who has personally spent more than $6 million to put this measure on the ballot. He’s partnered with MAGA Republican Party Chair Jim Walsh to roll back the ways our elected leaders have made life better in Washington in recent years with no care about the damage to our communities he leaves in his wake.
While fossil fuel corporations make record profits - BP Oil alone made $80 billion last year, a 30 percent increase over 2022 – we the consumers are paying the price with our health. The Climate Commitment Act is our states best shot at creating a healthy future for all of us in Washington. Vote no on I 2117 to keep the CCA in place.
The Climate Commitment Act (CCA) makes big polluters pay for the harm they cause to our air, water, and communities. I-2117 would eliminate the CCA and ban Washington from ever creating something similar. Washington voters have long supported statewide efforts to protect our health climate-changing pollution. Initiative 2117 (I-2117) is a multi-millionaire funded initiative that seeks to overturn that progress. It would revoke the 2021 Climate Commitment Act that protects the air we breathe and the water we drink using funds raised by making polluters pay for the damage that they cause.
Voting no on I-2117 is critical for our environment and communities. Without the funds raised by the CCA, a huge number of programs would be terminated, threatened, or reduced, including restoring fisheries and shorelines, wildfire resilience, preserving natural lands, school-based bike programs, free bus fare for students, updating our ferry system, and increasing the sustainable supply of water. The revenue from the Climate Commitment Act also creates good-paying, local jobs like making homes more energy-efficient, and installing heat pumps and solar panels. Ending this program would result in losing many of these good jobs and prevent the creation of more of them.
Behind this initiative is Republican mega-donor Brian Heywood, who has personally spent more than $6 million to put this measure on the ballot. He’s partnered with MAGA Republican Party Chair Jim Walsh to roll back the ways our elected leaders have made life better in Washington in recent years with no care about the damage to our communities he leaves in his wake.
While fossil fuel corporations make record profits - BP Oil alone made $80 billion last year, a 30 percent increase over 2022 – we the consumers are paying the price with our health. The Climate Commitment Act is our states best shot at creating a healthy future for all of us in Washington. Vote no on I 2117 to keep the CCA in place.