Clean fuels are within our grasp!

Transportation fuels are responsible for nearly half of our global warming pollution in Washington. Diesel and gasoline are also the largest sources of air pollution, which health professionals link directly to asthma, lung cancer, and other respiratory diseases. We also know that lower income communities and communities of color disproportionately suffer from pollution, since they are often closer to major transportation corridors. For example, diesel pollution is one reason that Duwamish Valley residents have a life expectancy thirteen years shorter than those in other parts of King County.

We can clean up our act right now.  HB 1110 has passed the House and is making its way through the Senate. Your voice is crucial.

Can you please email your senator and tell them to support the Clean Fuel Standard?

Currently drivers have few choices beyond traditional gasoline and diesel, since the oil companies have a monopoly on our options. Washingtonians deserve cleaner fuels that improve public health, reduce climate pollution, and support local economic development in rural communities.
 
A Clean Fuel Standard will:

  • Require refineries and fuel importers to achieve a 10% carbon intensity reduction by 2028; and a 20% carbon intensity reduction by 2035;
  • Cut more than five million tons of carbon by 2035;
  • Create up to 15,000 local jobs in the electrification industry and in the production of clean fuels from the agricultural, dairy, waste and forestry sectors.

Washington is the only West Coast state that still lacks a Clean Fuel Standard. It’s time for us to align ourselves with neighbors California, Oregon and British Columbia.

Let’s do this! Please email your senator right now.

Author Bio

Joelle Robinson
Joëlle Robinson

Field Director, Climate Solutions

Joëlle engages community members and diverse constituencies—faith, health, youth, parents, business—to make their voices heard for climate solutions. She led the team of organizers to ensure we stopped any coal export from the U.S. West Coast over the past decade. On offense, she co-led the Field team to help pass the 100% Clean Electricity (Clean Energy Transition Act in 2019) and in 2022 collaborated with the Field team to ensure that all new buildings (commercial and residential) will be built with heat pumps per the State Building Code Council. She continues to conspire for good with them on many other local and state initiatives.

Joëlle was the Regional Outreach Coordinator of National Wildlife Federation where she focused on mobilizing hunters, anglers and concerned citizens around solutions to global warming. Previous work with Climate Solutions includes the NW Climate Connections partnership, serving as the Field Assistant for the successful Clean Cars campaign, and Field Director of the Renewable Fuel Standard, which passed in April 2006.

She previously served on the boards of Earth Ministry, Solar Washington, and Sierra Club Executive Committee. She’s currently President of the board of her 3 year-old!

Joëlle is Northwest born and raised who loves to hike, dance, travel and explore the natural world.

Her favorite quote is “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” —  Mary Oliver

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