by Jay Inslee on May 18, 2023. Credit – Steph Chambers – Small pictures
Jay Inslee believes in the power of the local action – even overcoming the national setback.
“At the moment we know that these are tough days. We have a person in the White House who, as a young man, must have been afraid of wind turbines,” said the three-time democratic governor of the state of Washington at Time Earth Earth Awards 2025 on April 23.
Although the President withdrew the United States from the Paris climate agreement of 2015 and the reduction of climate minitiatives across the country, “Donald Trump cannot prevent a state from defeating climate change,” said Insee.
In 2021, Inslee signed in Law Washington’s Climate Obligation Act, which can limit the largest dirty of the state of emissions and the amount of polluted amounts that the state reinforced in clean energy can limit a purchase money. He has adopted laws that require 100% cleaning, which are generated from renewable or carbon resources to resources, invested electrical networks by 2045, billions of dollars in solar energy and electric vehicles and started to help companies and residents switch to clean energy.
The President and CEO of American Forests, the oldest non -governmentable organization of forest protection in the USA, Jad Daley, who presented Inslee the award, said Inslee’s leadership was “more than ever needed”.
“The guidance of the governor in the state of Washington alone would earn this award,” said Daley. But Inslee “went a decisive step in 2017”-as Trump tried for the first time to withdraw from the Paris Agreement-by coalition of 24 countries that promised to maintain the goals in the agreement. The Member States include Michigan, in which governor Gretchen Whitmer signed an extensive climate package in 2023 that drives the state towards 100% clean energy by 2040, and Maine, where governor Janet Mills signed several clean energy and solar energy calculations.
“Today’s cheapest electricity is clean energy,” said Inseee. “We are the answer to inflation to give people cheap, inexpensive and clean energy.”
Inslee ended with a call to act.
“These are the United States, and each of these states has the ability to advance clean energy and combat climate change,” said Inseee. “I’m tired of playing defense. We have to play insult now.”
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