Climate Solutions: Progress Report 2022
An update on Climate Solutions' achievements of the past year and our vision for the future.
An update on Climate Solutions' achievements of the past year and our vision for the future.
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Oregon<br />
legislators tour<br />
an all-electric<br />
affordable<br />
housing unit<br />
(Mamook<br />
Tokatee) in<br />
Portland’s Cully<br />
neighborhood<br />
Photo by Jason Quigley<br />
cians for Social Responsibility, who<br />
all worked together most of the year<br />
to ensure that both rounds of energy<br />
code updates (commercial buildings<br />
in April and then residential codes in<br />
November). Our coalition delivered<br />
at each key moment in the process<br />
with nearly 10,000 comments in<br />
support from Washingtonians and<br />
more than 200 people testifying in<br />
person or on Zoom, countless organizational<br />
letters, letters to the editor,<br />
and social posts. It was a complex<br />
process with many twists and turns<br />
that required some creativity on behalf<br />
of all of our partners, and it paid<br />
off. We celebrated the dual-pronged<br />
victory together with much laughter,<br />
gratitude and mutual appreciation.<br />
We also successfully worked in several<br />
Washington cities and counties<br />
like Shoreline, Olympia, Bellingham,<br />
and King County to disallow most uses<br />
of gas in new commercial and large
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