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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · 2d

Why is Trump so committed to killing solar energy, the least expensive energy source? Could it have something to do with the billion the fossil fuel polluters gave him? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/c...

Groups Sue E.P.A. Over Canceled $7 Billion for Solar Energy

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall is not going to stop inspiring us now.

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · 7d

Trump just snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the fight against climate killing HFC’s. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/c...

Trump Administration Moves to Relax Rules on Climate Super Pollutants

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · 14d

Seattle’s KOMO tv abuse of speech by bending the knee to trump, is not just disappointing. It’s outrageous. It’s shameful. When will media moguls wake up and understand that this guy’s appetite for constitutional abuse is endless?

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · 19d

Don’t let trump get away with anti-American persecution of Jimmy Kimmel. Go find a candidate that will stand up against this authoritarianism
and help them out. While there’s still time.

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · 27d

We can all agree, the violence in Utah is unacceptable.

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · 27d

RFK issues a report on children’s health and never makes a reference to the number one cause of children’s death -gun violence. That kind of ideological willful blindness is what results in such carnage.

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · 29d

Not to diminish other matters of concern, but Trump’s attack on clean energy jeopardizes the ocean species that produces half the world’s oxygen and is the base of the food chain. What could go wrong? Warming seas threaten key phytoplankton species.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

UW researcher’s ‘groundbreaking’ findings challenge assumptions about a keystone ocean species

New research suggests that a tiny phytoplankton that is an essential part of the marine food web may decline sharply as oceans warm.

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · Sep 5

Memo to Donald Trump; Closing your eyes doesn’t make the wolf at your door disappear. Destroying climate monitoring satellites we paid millions for doesn’t make climate change go away. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...

Two Valuable Satellites Are in ‘Perfect Health.’ They May Be Scrapped.

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · Sep 5

Also renaming the Department of Health and Human Services, the
“Department of War on Vaccines.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

Trump Is Renaming the Defense Department the Department of War

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · Sep 2

It’s great to see the scientific community blowing the whistle on Trump’s attempt to convince us that the forest fires, floods, heat strokes, and general misery caused by climate is somehow good for us.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/c...

Scientists Denounce Trump Administration’s Climate Report

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · Aug 26

Hearing that Trump thinks Americans want a dictator reminds me of Charlie Chaplin’s admonition against that concept in his “The Great Dictator.” Could anything be less American?

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · Aug 14

Republicans are not exactly helping Smokey the Bear when they complain about forest fires but then deny the climate change that is turning our forests into dry tinder. A bit like complaining about cancer, but then promoting tobacco.
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As Canada wildfires choke US with smoke, Republicans demand action. But not on climate change

Republican lawmakers are blaming Canada for not preventing and containing wildfires, whose smoke has fouled the air in several states this year.

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · Aug 8

I had just had a most inspiring talk with Dr. Robert Dewey, a leader with the New Hampshire Healthy Climate organization, which is bringing the voices of the medical community to the climate effort. Health is the first impact and they are the most trusted. www.nhclimatehealth.org/who-we-are-n...

About — NH Healthy Climate

NH Healthcare Workers for Climate Action is composed of students, trainees, early, mid and late-career professionals, and retirees, from a wide variety of healthcare settings, both clinical and noncli...

www.nhclimatehealth.org

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · Aug 6

When you see the jaw dropping retreat of titanic glaciers in Alaska, being eaten up by climate change, you
know climate change isn’t just real, it’s a powerful reshaping of the world we know.

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · Jul 30

Next up after Trump’s order abolishing the Endangerment Finding, thereby erasing clear inarguable climate science- an order to Nasa to delete all photos of a round, not flat, earth. Watch for it.

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · Jul 17

Here comes the sun, little darlin’! For a refreshing and heartening view of unstoppable progress on the road to a clean energy, @billmckibben.bsky.social gives us this solar gem. Thanks Bill! www.newyorker.com/news/annals-... 4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment | The New Yorker

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · Jul 16

There are not many places safe from the consequences of having a climate change denier in the White House, even underground, even in the financial capitol of the country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

Two Dead After Heavy Rains Swamp Roads and Rails in New York Region

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · Jul 11

Washington State will have higher electrical bills of $ 115 per year, and lose 21,000 jobs in the next five years due to Trump’s disastrous reconciliation bill. Heckuva job Mr. President. washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/07/11/m...

Megabill’s elimination of tax credits for clean energy projects could cost WA $8.7 billion • Washington State Standard

Officials are warning that the megabill passed last week will likely raise Washington households’ electricity costs and eliminate thousands of jobs in Washington’s clean energy and manufacturing secto...

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · Jul 11

Heckuva job, Kristi. www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...

In Texas flood response, FEMA slowed by Noem’s cost controls | CNN Politics

As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency leapt into action, preparing to deploy critical search and rescue teams and life-saving resources, like they have in countless past disasters.

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · Jul 9

In our grief, we must realize that
while sirens can help, they cannot stop the source of increasing flooding. Only action against climate change, against pollution can truly protect us. Heat increases the capacity of the air to hold water. We can’t wait for sirens. www.c2es.org/content/extr...

Extreme Precipitation and Climate Change

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · Jul 8

Bill is always up for new ways to fight the climate deniers. Join him any way you can.

Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · Jul 8

We've taken a hit to the chin, and now we figure out how to get up off the canvas.
Cross-movement organizing webinar tomorrow, with some powerful leaders

Sun Day @sundayofaction.bsky.social · Jul 8

📢 Want to know how to take action in light of the Big, Bad budget bill? Join a movement-wide call TOMORROW (Wednesday, July 9th) at 8pm ET 👉 Register here: bit.ly/billionswebinar

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · Jul 8

When your ruinous reduction in federal employment results in nobody in the “warning coordination meteorologist” position just before the Texas flash floods, you’ve got more than alot of explaining to do, Trump. When you kill climate science you kill people. www.cnn.com/2025/07/05/c...

Beleaguered Weather Service defends its forecasts as Texas officials point fingers over flood warnings | CNN

Texas forecasters issued a series of early-morning warnings about “life-threatening flooding” along the Guadalupe River.

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · Jul 6

The Texas officials who say , “We couldn’tqaa see this coming,” are totally oblivious that they should have seen climate change coming, and done something about it. Climate change denial means more torrential rain for Texas, and more flash flooding. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-tex...

Texas Officials Face Scrutiny Over Response To Catastrophic And Deadly Flooding

Local officials have insisted that no one saw the flood potential coming and have defended their actions.

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · Jul 5

It’s hard to make the Texas flood tragedy worse, except to know that on the same day Trump signed a bill to stop our efforts to defeat the climate change that is causing increased frequency of disastrous floods. And giving us more expensive electricity. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/c...

As the World Warms, Extreme Rain Is Becoming Even More Extreme

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