A commitment to climate solutions

With $4-a-gallon gas, wars in the Middle East, and accelerating climate change, it's no wonder we're seeing bipartisan support for ending our addiction to oil.

Fossil-fuel dependence is already costing too much — draining more than $50 million per day from Washington's economy as it disrupts our climate, causing more intense floods and forest fires.

Expanding oil drilling isn't an answer. That's like treating an addiction by increasing the drug supply. Instead, Washington can become a leader in the transition to a prosperous, sustainable future through the Western Climate Initiative (WCI), a coalition of seven states and four Canadian provinces working to reduce their global-warming pollution and build their clean-energy economies...