By Brian Emanuels<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\nThey say that Alaska Natives have twelve different words for snow. Well, in Seattle, we have nearly as many for the different varieties of rain we experience: drizzle, mist, showers, light rain, pouring\u2026the list goes on. We endure these varieties of rain amid drab, gray skies for months on end \u2013 from late October until spring or even early summer \u2013 because around July 5, our long-awaited, glorious summer arrives. The clouds part, revealing the snow-capped Olympic mountains reflecting off the cold, blue waters of Puget Sound.<\/p>\n
But not this year. Or last. Instead, our summer\u2019s blue skies quickly reverted to gray \u2013 not due to familiar rain clouds, but due to a thick blanket of smoke from wildfires raging across our state, California, British Columbia, and much of the western U.S.<\/p>\n
Itchy, bloodshot eyes. Chalky mouth and throat. Hacking coughs. Coworkers calling in sick. People walking the streets wearing protective masks, wondering when it\u2019ll end. But it\u2019s everywhere, and it\u2019s inescapable. Even inside the McCarthey arena at Gonzaga University, where we celebrated welcome mass Sunday morning before leaving our youngest son for his freshman year of college, a thin layer of smoke hung inside the building under the rafters of Gonzaga basketball\u2019s hallowed hall. It\u2019s depressing. We are \u2013 literally and figuratively \u2013 living in a haze.<\/p>\n
But there is hope on the horizon. We hope for wind to blow the smoke away, and eventually rain to wash out our air and mercifully douse the fires\u2014and the irony of Seattleites praying for rain in August is not lost on us. But we also have hope that a longer term solution is at hand. Because in just over two months, voters in Washington will decide whether to approve Initiative 1631. If\u2014when\u2014it passes, it will be the first direct fee on carbon pollution in the U.S.<\/p>\n
Washington state has a long history as a bellwether state. From gay marriage to marijuana legalization, Washington has been at the front of the pack, and in 2018, we hope to do so again by putting a steadily rising fee on the biggest polluters in our state, to fund a plethora of projects to clean our energy supply along with our air and water. Of the approximately $1B per year that I-1631 will raise, 70% will be directed to clean energy projects, energy efficiency and transportation options that will directly reduce carbon pollution; 25% will be allocated to protecting our forests and water supply; the remaining 5% will be directed to a fund to protect the communities and workers most impacted by the transition to a clean energy future.<\/p>\n
But the road to passing I-1631 won\u2019t be easy. The oil companies have already committed $8.7 million to defeat it. To win, we need to leverage the unprecedented coalition of businesses, environmental organizations, labor unions, organizations representing people of color, low income advocates, faith-based organizations, physicians and advocates for science-based policy making, and first nations tribes to reach more than one million persuadable voters, in person and over the phone, to make our case.<\/p>\n
(L-R) Richard Lipsky, Brian Emanuels, Rachel Molloy and Elijah Kelimig going door to door in Redmond, Washington.
\nAlready, teams of I-1631 supporters are fanning out across the state, knocking on doors of voters, and will soon begin phone banking, with a goal of directly reaching over a million voters before the election on Nov. 6. I\u2019ve completed my first two doorbelling shifts, reaching nearly 160 households, and the results are encouraging: Voters are receptive and appreciative of our efforts, and they\u2019re overwhelmingly supportive. The smoky skies make our case for us that the time for \u201cClean Air Clean Energy\u201d Initiative 1631 is now!<\/p>\n
I\u2019m writing this as we\u2019re driving home from Spokane, past the rows of wind turbines on the banks of the mighty Columbia river. The river itself powers hydroelectric generating stations that provide clean renewable energy to most of our state. That sight is further encouraging proof that clean energy \u2013 and eventually, clear skies \u2013 are our destiny, not just here in Washington, but everywhere.<\/p>\n
But first, there\u2019s more work to do. A team of volunteers is coming to our now suddenly empty nest tomorrow for doorbelling training, and then we\u2019ll head out into the surrounding neighborhoods to canvass for I-1631. We have a goal for CCLers in Washington to knock on 10,000 doors by November, and for our Bellevue chapter to knock on 1,000 \u2013 a number I hope and expect we\u2019ll far exceed, as that\u2019s also the number of doors I personally plan to knock on before November! I hope other CCLers throughout our state, and from our neighboring states, will visit yeson1631.org and sign up for as many doorbelling shifts as you can muster, to help us far exceed our 10,000 door goal.<\/p>\n
CCLers from further away can also help in a number of ways: by writing letters to the editor of one of our local newspapers in support of I-1631, and\/or by joining our soon-to-launch phone banking campaign to call targeted voters. Stay tuned here for information coming soon on how you, wherever you live, can make calls and send texts to key voters in Washington state who will be pivotal to putting I-1631 over the top.\u00a0Together, we can help put a fee on carbon pollution\u2014first here in Washington state, then in other states, and soon, nationally, with CCL\u2019s Carbon Fee and Dividend proposal.<\/p>\n
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