Washington, other states defending progress made addressing pollution and climate change - Washington Conservation Action
Washington, other states defending progress made addressing pollution and climate change| Washington Conservation Action
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMedia Contact: Zachary Pullin, 206-639-3760, zachary@waconservationaction.org WASHINGTON STATE (July 15, 2025) Today, Washington Conservation Action (WCA) enthusiastically names Sen. Liz Lovelett (D-Anacortes) of the 40th Legislative District as its 2025 Legislator of the Year, key sponsor of the 2025 Recycling Reform Act. Each year, Washington Conservation Action names a single Legislator of the...| Washington Conservation Action
Washington, other states defending progress made addressing pollution and climate change| Washington Conservation Action
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At the start of 2025, state lawmakers faced roughly a $16 billion budget shortfall. So, we knew this would be a difficult legislative session. But, in the end, the results for people and nature were full of positive victories.| Washington Conservation Action
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – APRIL 27, 2024Media Contacts:Zachary Pullin, Communications Director, EPC, 206-639-3760 Environmental Priorities Coalition, Powerful Statewide Enviro Coalition Defends CCA Dollars, Advances Key Priority Bills including major extended producer responsibility for recycling OLYMPIA, WA—Last night, the 2025 Washington legislative session officially ended. Washington’s Environmental Priorities Coalition (EPC) celebrates its legislative and budget victories:...| Washington Conservation Action
Washington Conservation Action (WCA) is committed to amplifying the voices of our partners and of our communities. In that spirit, we publish Q&A blogs featuring people and leaders connected to our…| Washington Conservation Action
Noah, a 7th grader from Bellingham, wrote WCA a sweet letter supporting our work and asking how to get more involved!| Washington Conservation Action
Christina Billingsley (she/her), the first person of color to chair the board of Washington Conservation Action (WCA), started fighting for the environment while still in middle school.| Washington Conservation Action
Washington Conservation Action (WCA) is committed to amplifying the voices of our partners and of our communities. In that spirit, we publish Q&A blogs featuring people and leaders connected to our organization from around the state. In honor of Women’s History Month, we are featuring stories of female leaders connected to our work. This Q&A...| Washington Conservation Action
Kent, WA—Today, King County Superior Court’s Judge Sandra Widlan ruled that Initiative 2066 violates the Washington state constitution. Lawyers for a plaintiff group of public interest advocates and local governments argued that the initiative’s sweeping impacts to state and local laws and clean energy programs likely violate Washington State’s constitution single-subject rule for initiatives. The...| Washington Conservation Action
WCA seeks the next winner of the Bullitt Prize, who is a professional, academic, or grassroots leader advancing conservation and environmental justice.| Washington Conservation Action
Deb Haaland, a citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna and a 35th generation New Mexican, is the kind of politician that gives us hope in this chaotic historical moment. Washington Conservation Action Education Fund is thrilled that she is a featured speaker at our annual gala, Cascade, in Seattle on May 2. A longtime fighter...| Washington Conservation Action
Dominant culture rarely acknowledges the fact that Black communities have always nurtured a respect and awe for land and plants, for animals and for the cycles of the planet. Africans were kidnapped from agrarian societies where people farmed and lived with nature for generations. Packed into our country’s history, are Black people in the United...| Washington Conservation Action
Washington Conservation Action (WCA) is committed to amplifying the voices of our partners and of our communities. In that spirit, we publish Q&A blogs featuring people and leaders connected to our organization from around the state. Washington Conservation Action endorsed Lisa Brown in her campaign to be mayor of Spokane, an office she has held...| Washington Conservation Action
Bang. Whoosh. Bang. Whoosh. The big wood door at Evergreen State’s Lord Mansion near the state capitol in Olympia opens and closes constantly as activists from around Washington come and go. Since it’…| Washington Conservation Action
Plastic pollution isn’t just wasteful and unsightly, we carry its effects in our bodies. Washington state has an inconsistent, outdated, and inefficient recycling system that has not been able to keep up with the avalanche of plastic and paper packaging our economy churns out. The Recycling Reform Act, a 2025 focus for the Environmental Priorities...| Washington Conservation Action
The new Commissioner of Public Lands Dave Upthegrove just started his first day leading the Department of Natural Resources and is already delivering on his campaign promises! Today…| Washington Conservation Action
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A coalition of local governments and environmental, climate, and health advocates from across the state filed a lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of Washington State Ballot Initiative 2066| Washington Conservation Action
Washington Conservation is proud to award the 2025 Bullitt Prize to Free and Raven Borsey, of the Lummi Nation.| Washington Conservation Action
2024 Bullitt Prize Winners Weave Culture and Conservation Together for Environmental Justice SEATTLE, WA – Washington Conservation Action announces Free Borsey and Raven Borsey, of the Lummi Nation, as the winners of its 18th annual $100,000 Bullitt Prize. They dedicate themselves to nurturing and passing on traditional ecological knowledge, to resisting projects that damage the...| Washington Conservation Action
Upthegrove wins General Election, will lead Department of Natural Resources SEATTLE, WA (Nov 8)–Washington Conservation Action (WCA) issued the following statement after election results were announced for Commissioner of Public Lands-elect Dave Upthegrove, King County Councilmember. “Forest management and healthy forests are not partisan issues. Our state needs a new generation of natural resources leadership...| Washington Conservation Action
For everyone struggling and mourning right now, we are with you. We always will be. When you’re with Washington Conservation Action, together, we are a powerful force for progress. Today, take the time you need for yourself, because tomorrow we fight.| Washington Conservation Action
No on 2117 Campaign, Its Nearly 600 Coalition Members, & Governor Jay Inslee Celebrate the Defeat of Initiative 2117 No on 2117 Statewide Grassroots Organizing Program Had Over 2,000 Volunteers, Knocked on 180,000 Doors, Made Over 176,000 Calls to Voters SEATTLE, WA — The No on 2117 campaign, its statewide coalition of nearly 600 organizations and Tribal Nations,...| Washington Conservation Action
Washington Conservation Action (WCA) is committed to amplifying the voices of our partners and of our communities. In that spirit, we are beginning a series of Q&A blogs featuring candidates and elected leaders connected to our organization from around the state. Chelsea Dimas grew up in Sunnyside in the Yakima Valley. After graduating from Pacific...| Washington Conservation Action
Washington Conservation Action (WCA) is committed to amplifying the voices of our partners and of our communities. In that spirit, we are beginning a series of Q&A blogs featuring candidates and elected leaders connected to our organization from around the state. In Washington’s newly redrawn 14th legislative district, Maria Beltran seeks to flip a district...| Washington Conservation Action
Do you have this nagging feeling that the way we interact with the bounty that the Earth provides is just wrong? How many people do you know who have little habits that illustrate this unease? Tearing up old t-shirts to use instead of paper towels? Or saving the cold bath water that usually goes down...| Washington Conservation Action
When you open your ballot this month, the first thing you’ll be asked to weigh in on is I-2066. This confusing initiative is one of four backward-looking measures pushed by powerful special interests and Brian Heywood, a far-right mega-millionaire who is trying to undo our state’s progress on everything from healthcare to the climate crisis. ...| Washington Conservation Action
Washington Conservation Action (WCA) is committed to amplifying the voices of our partners and of our communities. In that spirit, we are beginning a series of Q&A blogs featuring candidates and elected leaders connected to our organization from around the state. Two years ago, Adison Richards lost the election for state representative in the 26th...| Washington Conservation Action
This fall, climate is on the ballot. That’s just the truth. It’s true nationally, and even internationally. Former President Trump has made clear that if re-elected, he will pull the United States out of the United Nations Paris Climate Agreement. He will roll back the transition to clean energy sources and open federal lands to...| Washington Conservation Action
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Double Haul Timber Sale & Merril Lake Natural Resources Area Landslide Pre-sale: Sale Preparation and Public Engagement The Double Haul timber sale encompassed 248.1 acres on federally-granted trust lands in Cowlitz County. The sale was situated on steep slopes directly uphill of the Merrill Lake Natural Resources Conservation Area (NRCA). The Merrill Lake NRCA features...| Washington Conservation Action
Modeled after LCV Victory Fund’s federal Dirty Dozen, the Dirty Dozen WA highlights up to 12of the worst candidates and ballot initiatives for conservation and environmental justice on the 2024 General Election ballot in November. Those feature on the Washington State Dirty Dozen have aligned against environmental justice, areproven accomplices to corporate polluters, and are...| Washington Conservation Action
Washington Conservation Action (WCA) endorsed-candidate for Commissioner of Public Lands Dave Upthegrove earned his spot on the November General Election ballot.| Washington Conservation Action
Carbon is part of a complex web of relationships in forest ecosystems. Learn more from our infographics about this complex and yet very important part of the web of life - for people and planet! Including carbon storage, sequestration, extended harvests, and natural climate solutions| Washington Conservation Action
*This is a feature from our 2024 Summer issue of Convene, our bi-annual magazine. Washington’s Commissioner of Public Lands (CPL) is one of only six statewide natural resource positions in the country. The CPL, who runs the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has a profound influence on how our state manages nearly 12 million acres...| Washington Conservation Action
We thank Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez for her commitment to voting based on what’s right for our struggling families and struggling family farms-for rejecting this Farm Bill because Congress can and must do better.| Washington Conservation Action
This year WCA is honored to announce state Representative Beth Doglio of the 22nd Legislative District as Washington Conservation Action’s 2024 Legislator of the Year!| Washington Conservation Action
Washington Conservation Action (WCA) launches an ambitious voter engagement campaign called, “Call 4 Climate Action.| Washington Conservation Action
Thurston County Superior Court Judge Anne Egeler affirmed that the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has the authority to lease lands for carbon sequestration.| Washington Conservation Action
Washington Conservation Action (WCA) is committed to amplifying the voices of our partners and of our communities. The first in this series is with Jamika Scott (she/her). WCA in 2023 endorsed Scott…| Washington Conservation Action
WCA endorses Dave Upthegrove, chair of King County Council, for Commissioner of Public Lands in the 2024 election| Washington Conservation Action
The Environmental Priorities Coalition (EPC) celebrates Senators voting 29-20 to pass HB 1368 off the Senate floor. Once the House concurs, the bill will be sent to the Governor’s desk to become law.| Washington Conservation Action
Today is World Rivers Day, a celebration of our planet’s waterways. Ponder, for a few moments, the wonder of rivers and streams–so complex and varied. People have always known how meaningful rivers…| Washington Conservation Action
