Jay Inslee

Your leadership on climate change has inspired other States to step up to the plate and it is time for the Congress to do the same.

When you drive an electric car your transportation fuel is about 80 percent cheaper than when you are driving a gasoline-powered car.

I would respect the law of the State of Washington.

The will of the people will be expressed through our democratic process legislatively.

I really believe that we got to focus on preventing carbon emissions in the first place.

You can't say you want the rest of the world to act and then turn around and say you are not part of the Paris Agreement.

We are the leader of the world. We are an indispensable nation because of the power of our economy and we need them to keep--you know, it is kind of interesting to me.

It is a heartbreak to see some technologies that--in the lab were created in our labs be deployed in China and Germany because they have had policies to make them economically competitive in their grid and transportation systems.

We are ready to--we are in the gate, ready to go, if the Federal Government will just remove those requirements.

I think there are some of importance.

We passed a renewable portfolio standard provision maybe a decade-plus ago. We had zero wind turbines or any significant wind turbines. We now have six.

The policies that we have adopted in Washington State I really don't think there is an argument it has had any meaningful disruption to any communities or any utility or any ratepayer.

So the fact that we have been eclectic and nonjudgmental, looking at all spectrum of jobs has been very effective for us and I hope the Federal policy will follow.

Climate change is not an abstraction to Governors.

This originally was called global warming and it has turned out to be global wearing because it is disrupting all kinds of patterns

We have to have some mechanism to reduce--to create an incentive not to put carbon in the atmosphere in the first place for any of these programs to work.

I think that sequestration of carbon in biological systems is something we should explore

I think it is really important for all of us to be nonselective amongst multiple low- and zero-carbon solutions here.

I have been very forthright in saying that we need to have under consideration any low-carbon or zero-carbon technology.

If we infect the U.S. Congress with the confidence we have... good things are going to happen.

The best thing the Federal Government can do is to adopt federally what our States are doing.

The first priority would be to remove the shackles that prevent us from moving forward in States.

The truth remains that without leadership from our Federal Government the country won't be able to do enough fast enough.

The law in the State of Washington as developed through the permitting process did not satisfy the laws of the State of Washington.

The thought that our kids are having trouble breathing might be the biggest one.