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The Climate Commitment Act (CCA)
The CCA is a very complex law that helps Washington State respond to the climate crisis. It enables WA to generate funding for increasing energy efficiency, reducing pollution, restoring the environment, creating programs that provide environmental justice in marginalized communities, and repairing certain transportation infrastructures. It generates this funding through a system of auctioning allowances for carbon emissions while reducing the level of allowable emissions over time.
The League's position on this comes from extensive climate-related policies, including consistency with the best available climate science, reducing emissions, addressing the long-term impacts of climate change on public health, accelerating the shift to cleaner, more energy-efficient sources, and more. For more information or to identify a speaker on this topic, contact Martin Gibbons, LWVWA Climate Crisis Issue Chair.
The WA Cares Act
This program allows employees to receive long-term care services through deposits of employee payroll taxes over a period of time, which are then invested for future use. The program was initiated because so many people cannot afford private long-term care services, even though over 70% of the population eventually needs them. If many people drop out of this program, it could not accrue enough future funds through investment gains to provide the long-term care services when they are needed. This would cost taxpayers more in the future through increased personal and Medicaid expenses.
The League's support for this program comes from its position that total health care system expenditures should be controlled, and universal access to affordable health services—with seamless coverage regardless of one's health status—should be provided. For more information or to identify a speaker on this topic, contact Cynthia Stewart, LWVWA Revenue Chair or Karen Tvedt, LWVWA Elder Care Study Leader.
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Climate Planning: HB 1181 created a new stand alone element of local government’s Growth Management Act that centers around the ever growing impacts of climate change and the urgency of making Washington resilient to our new climate reality.
Community Participatory Solutions: The final budget invests in participation of communities in decision making that impact their health and future by funding $36.6 million for participation in the implementation of the Healthy Environment for All (HEAL) Act, and $26.3 million for capacity grants towards the state’s HEAL Act.
Disproportionately Impacted Workers: Community to Community, with support from, Front and Centered, achieved another win for frontline communities with a $10 million investment supporting workplace health and safety program for workers affected by climate impacts.
Energy Justice: We secured $300,000 for a study that will recommend pathways to develop a statewide energy assistance program. This aims to unify the fragmented assistance programs across the state that create barriers for low-income communities to access help with utility bills.
Transportation Justice: We attained $5 million to start working with the University of Washington and the WA Department of Transportation on mapping current sidewalk accessibility across the state and identify gaps that must be filled.
Finally, we are also grounded in the impact that our work has in Washington and beyond! President Biden recently published the Executive Order (EO) on Revitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environmental Justice for All, an expansion on Clinton’s original EO on environmental justice from 1994 with many parallels to the HEAL Act and White House’s media release quoted C2C founder and community council Chair Rosalinda Guillen! I encourage you to check out the EO and media release and see how similar they are to our own state’s HEAL Act commitments.
“We want police to stop killing our families”
Statement as Trial for Manny Ellis's Killers, 3 Tacoma Officers, Approaches
Wednesday September 6, 2023
The Washington Coalition for Police Accountability released the following public statements regarding the jury trial, just scheduled for September 18th, of three Tacoma Police Department officers charged with murdering Tacoma resident Manny Ellis.
“As a mother whose life was shattered when her child was killed by police, I’ll say it again: We want police to stop killing our families. We want our sons and daughters to know they will be treated fairly if they encounter police. Our hearts go out to the Ellis’ family, who will never stop suffering the loss of their loved one.” - Sonia Joseph, Board Chair of Washington Coalition for Police Accountability, whose son Giovonn Joseph-McDade was killed by Kent police in 2017.
“For the families impacted by police violence, it’s not just about justice after the fact. It’s about preventing unnecessary police violence in the future. A jury trial of Tacoma police officers for hogtying and suffocating a Tacoma man may bring justice for Manny Ellis’ family and community. It may take those police officers off our streets. But it doesn’t change the fact that Mr. Ellis’ horrific death should never have happened in the first place.” - Dr. Gary Damon, Jr., Interim Executive Director of the Washington Coalition for Police Accountability
Police in Washington State have killed more than 300 people since 2015—roughly 1 in 6 of all homicides in the state, according to homicide data from the WA State Department of Health.
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WCPA is a coalition of families who have lost loved ones to police violence, advocates, experts, and organizations working together on state-wide policies to reduce police violence and increase accountability. The coalition grew out of advocacy for WA Initiative 940 in 2018. The WCPA was formed in 2020, against the backdrop of the murder of George Floyd, and the killing and ensuing coverup of the death of Manny Ellis in Tacoma, to address the significant gaps in I-940 and to broaden the work overall to address police violence in Washington state.
The WCPA became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2022. Its mission is to create safer communities in Washington state by promoting the implementation of policies that reduce violence and increase police accountability.
More information the coalition is working on:
https://www.washingtoncoalitionforpoliceaccountability.com/our-voice/9ykgq49ajtgol5k80mh60w4lj26ncu