OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee is out of the state this week on an east coast campaign tour, but Democrats in Washington’s Legislature are working to pass key bills on his agenda.
On Thursday, the state House debated SB 5116, the governor’s sweeping proposal to move the state to what he calls a “clean-energy” economy. Under the bill, Washington’s electric utilities would have to eliminate all coal-fired energy sources by 2025, and by 2045 would have to get 100 percent of retail electricity generation from non-carbon and renewable resources.
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