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The 2025 legislative comes to a close with significant policy and budget wins for the environment.
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Dear John,
What a legislative session. After four months of committee hearings, budget negotiations, lobby days, and meetings with and messages to legislators, the 2025 legislative session has
finally come to a close.
Due to your persistence and the support of our coalition partners, key stakeholders, and our champions in the legislature, we made significant progress on key environmental priorities
and investments. We helped pass bills to fight urban sprawl and build more affordable housing. We won fights to reduce waste in landfills and toxins in our food. And, in a very tough
budget year, we secured tens of millions of dollars to advance clean transportation initiatives, to protect mature forests and increase carbon sequestration on state lands.
Here’s our comprehensive report if you’d like to take it all in. <https://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=34dff5369250077e651c3706d8f409c1c0cbc66d362a869a9afc18195e558f40a954d7b655bd9e16548dfdfdb2cfe
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With an incredibly hostile federal administration intent on undoing years of environmental progress and a climate crisis that grows every day, our community truly made our presence felt
throughout the legislative session – both online and in Olympia. Our action alerts generated 2,628 messages from constituents to legislators. We had over 200 in-person and 20 online
participants from across the state attend our lobby day, scheduling 76 meetings across 36 legislative districts. Our elected leaders heard the mandate for environmental progress loud
and clear.
In addition to our members across the state, I must express my sincere appreciation for the strong support from our volunteer leaders. The Chapter’s Legislative Committee of Tony Usibelli,
Nancy Johnson, Julia Reitan, Margie Van Cleve, Bill Arthur and Ken Gersten put in countless hours reviewing bills, discussing strategy and setting our course. Additional volunteers
provided testimony and leadership on specific bills throughout the session. We couldn’t have succeeded without the likes of Tim Gould, Susan Kane-Ronning, Kathleen Saul, Cathryn Chudy,
Phyllis Farrell, Rick Eggerth, Tom Soeldner, and so many more.
Finally, our staff team of Wes, Mariska, and Emilio — including our excellent lobbyist Craig Engelking, delivered crucial leadership and dedication to getting our priorities over the
finish line.
I encourage you to read the full End of Session Report <https://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=34dff5369250077e65fd2297bf73a103d35f5259abe38bcf9101de59843e16a9d4f377c891b5294a309b8037fd91c7889da4d74
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2025 End of Session Report <https://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=16efcc06f7e6dcdbc43d11f027003a724864bab1908603f47b2a1e13db32f73be4fce018f27c5ef56036882cb80cd78980e0bb456a629952>
With gratitude,
Ben Avery
Chapter Director
Sierra Club Washington State
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