Every year, hundreds of people make a huge impact in just a couple of hours during our annual Spokane River Clean-Up. This year, we are again going to make a big impact with a few changes.
Prop 1 Ruled Invalid in Spokane Superior Court
Today Spokane County Superior Court Judge Bjelkengren ruled that Spokane Prop 1 was beyond the scope of the local initiative process and enjoined it from heading to the ballot. The measure sought to permanently prohibit the City from restricting gas-use in new construction, which is considered critical to meeting climate change targets established in State law and the Spokane code.
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Lawsuit to Challenge Validity of Nationally Backed Ballot Initiative
Spokane, WA—A challenge to a murky Spokane ballot initiative, Prop 1 (The Spokane Cleaner Energy Protection Act) became official yesterday with a lawsuit, filed in Spokane Superior Court, arguing that Prop 1 is an improper initiative and must be stricken from the ballot. The lawsuit alleges that Prop 1 violates several of the legal limitations on the local initiative process. A local initiative cannot be used to stop the city from carrying out state policy, to limit the City Council's statutory powers, or to address administrative issues. As Prop 1 violates all of these rules, Plaintiffs Kate Burke and the nonprofit Protect Spokane Action are seeking to strike the measure from the ballot.
From the ED | August 2021
On August 9th, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its 6th Assessment Report reviewing the latest climate science. If you haven't already heard, the future is bleak. The fact that humans and our fossil fuel usage have warmed the planet is undeniable, and we've reached a point of no-return.
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Grazing Permits on Colville National Forest Threaten Imperiled Bull Trout
To defend threatened bull trout and bull trout critical habitat on the Colville National Forest—and with much of northeast Washington under extreme drought—conservation groups have warned the U.S. Forest Service that they will amend an existing lawsuit against the agency’s grazing management to include claims under the Endangered Species Act if the agency does not respond.
