No on 2117 (no2117.com), the campaign to defeat Initiative 2117 (I-2117), on August 19 announced that its unprecedented statewide coalition of firefighters, small businesses, Tribal Nations, doctors and public health leaders, labor unions, and environmental groups has grown to over 400 members. Since its public launch in April 2024, the coalition has grown from over 100 to over 400 organizations and Tribal Nations who oppose I-2117.
Initiative 2117 would prohibit carbon tax credit trading and repeal provisions of the 2021 Washington Climate Commitment Act (CCA), a state law that provided for a cap-and-invest program intended to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 95% by 2050.
The organization claims that I-2117 would devastate Washington’s transportation and infrastructure programs by taking away billions in funding, jeopardizing efforts to fix roads and bridges and reduce traffic congestion. It would threaten our clean water, mean more toxic air pollution and wildfires, and result in more kids and adults with asthma and illness.
“We are building an unprecedented coalition and grassroots movement to defeat I-2117. Alongside our 400 coalition partners, we’re launching a massive statewide grassroots organizing effort to defeat the purposely misleading Initiative 2117, which is opposed by firefighters, small business owners, doctors, Tribal Nations and more because it would threaten our health, and make traffic worse,” said Wellesley Daniels, Campaign Manager, No on 2117.
Organizations recently endorsing No on 2117 include: Central Washington Building & Construction Trades; Columbia Riverkeeper; Living Well Kent, a nonprofit wellness hub for King County residents; Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe; Cement Masons & Plasterers Local 528; Seattle Parks Foundation; Swinomish Indian Tribal Community; Taylor Shellfish; Washington Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics; Washington State Nurses Association. The full list of organizations endorsing No on 2117 is available here.
No on 2117 continues to grow its organizing power across Washington state with summer Weekends of Action. Over the first weekend, the campaign organized more than 300 volunteer shifts and reached an estimated 17,000 voters across Washington state. To-date, No on 2117 has conducted direct voter outreach in 37 Washington cities.
By The Numbers: The Campaign to Defeat I-2117
- Over 400: Number of Washington organizations endorsing No on 2117
- Over 850: Number of volunteers working across Washington to defeat I-2117
- Over $12.9M: Amount raised or pledged to defeat I-2117
- Over 4,600: Number of grassroots donations to No on 2117
- 94: Percent of No on 2117 donors contributing $100 or less
SOURCE: No on 2117 Committee press release with additions by the Lynnwood Times
Author: Lynnwood Times Staff
5 Responses
A definite yes.
The carbon tax is a slush fund for our political leaders to feed their supporters.
The fifty cents a gallon tax will be better spent in the hands of the people that earn their money.
I’m a definite yes as well. The government never effectively spends tax money. It goes into pet projects that don’t improve anything for the middle class. We already have enough taxes to take care of the roads if the money is spent properly.
Yes on 2117. These people are delusional, small and are just trying to fool Washingtonians. CCA is a shell game and does not reduce use of carbon based fuels.
yes on 2117. in the 2+ years Of CCA only benefit I have heard was building addtl charging stations for EVs. not benefit for middle class, who paid for the stations. no improvement in road conditions.
Take a moment to learn about the funding just starting to go DIRECTLY to your own communities…for needed flood resiliency, mitigation projects, school cooling, upgraded city fleets, residential heat pumps and gap installation funding, weatherization and efficiency programs, energy bill updates, infrastructure upgrades, etc.
Homeowners already can’t afford to shoulder this burden alone…it already runs at a far higher cost for inaction. We stand to lose millions for direct community needs, for very visible and now critical upgrades.
Ask yourself, especially during this next week of +90 degree September heat…how have you been addressing this known challenge these past 20 years? What alternative plan are you putting in it’s place, immediately and effectively, if you dismantle the only statewide CCA response? Is what you end up with….actually no plan at all?
Here’s what just my city stands to lose…how would we get this work done now?
We are throwing these solutions away for a few pennies of old gas pollution (demand is already falling for gas, and with that demand down goes the prices as people upgrade). We can have cost savings, upgrades, resiliency, known problems solved, polluters paying a fair fee for their known harm, a sustainabilitly future, and cleaner air.
Redmond Climate Commitment Act-Funded Projects:
• Transportation
• $250,000 for electric fire engine charging infrastructure (contingent on the CCA vote in November). Funding from the WA supplemental transportation budget.
• $750,000 appropriated for this biennium (contingent on CCA vote in November) for the 148th Ave NE Bicycle and Pedestrian Overpass Project from Move Ahead Washington. $8M total award.
• Energy
• $3.1M award to Energy Smart Eastside (split between 6 cities – $297K to Redmond) from the Department of Commerce Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates Program
• $850K award from Puget Sound Energy for Energy Smart Eastside Boost Program (split between 5 cities – $187K to Redmond). These are pass through CCA funds.
• $1.5M award (not announced) to Energy Smart Eastside (split between 6 cities – $285K to Redmond) from the Department of Commerce Adult Family Homes Home
Electrification and Appliance Rebate Program
• $100,000 for solar and energy storage feasibility study from the Department of Commerce Solar Plus Storage Program
• Climate Resilience and Mitigation Planning
• $350,000 for HB 1181 implementation from the Department of Commerce Climate Planning Grant Program