Jay Inslee

My State is the most rapidly growing economy in the country.

We ought to be all working together to develop alternatives to coal.

If we burn all of the coal that we have we will not have something, anything that looks like the way we live today.

The vast, vast, vast, majority of humanity is recognizing this existential threat to their life on this planet.

The President of the United States decided to try to withdraw us from the Paris Agreement.

With all due respect, you asked me a question.

I want to make sure that in answering your question, I am answering it not in respect to that particular applicant.

When you talk about a just transition issue, we are closing our last remaining coal-fired plant in Centralia, Washington.

It doesn't take rocket science to understand this and it is something that unifies us all.

We need a just transition to a clean energy system, not just a transition.

It is most frequently marginalized communities. It is the front-line communities, frequently communities of color.

If you have got a coastline, you are a potential victim.

No, I am not confident that over a long term that we have stability on the Columbia system.

I think we need to continue research to figure out whether we can solve some of the things we need to solve for nuclear power which, obviously--and they are well known to you.

We know that these small policies can develop big, big industries.

We have a President of the United States that says, you know, your television will blank out if the wind doesn't blow.

These investments pay off ultimately if we can reduce the level of damages that we are occurring.

The cost of inaction is enormous.

This is an economic development program that is available to all Americans throughout our country.

The cost of wind turbine energy has come down about 20 percent.

The cost of solar energy in the last 10 years has come down 80 percent.

I think that the most significant thing that has happened is that our research and some of our policies are actually bearing fruit.

I just looked at Illinois, for example, because I wanted to honor Representative Shimkus. It has 8,633 wind jobs. It has 4,879 solar jobs.

Today, there are 3.2 million Americans working in the clean energy sector today, and it is the fastest growing sector of the economy.

We are on track of putting $50,000 electric cars on our road including the Governor's little General Motors Bolt built in Orion, Michigan, with American workers--a spiffy little safe car.