Washington State Environmental Bills

Opportunity to Follow Environmental Bills in the Washington State Legislature

Here in Olympia every year, our elected officials make critical decisions related to environmental wellbeing and sustainability in Washington State. Each legislative session, Panorama resident Lon Dickerson tracks and reports on bills that aim to protect the environment, reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, and promote the use of clean energy and electricity.   As part of the Sacred Earth Matters group at the United Church of Christ church in Seattle’s university district, Lon sends weekly alerts during each session to interested Washingtonians in both the Seattle area and across the state. Subscribing to these alerts is an important learning opportunity, and a prompt to action if you’d like to do that too!  To subscribe, contact Lon at lon_dickerson@yahoo.com.

It’s squeaky wheels that get the grease. The Green Team encourages Panorama residents to learn about priority legislation and to help get it approved in the 2027 WA legislative session, which runs from January 11 – April 26. 

Each advocacy alert provides an overview of a bill scheduled for a committee hearing/vote or floor vote and asks recipients to call the toll-free legislative hotline to urge their legislators to support the bill. 

State legislators will start filing draft bills in December for the 2027-28 biennial legislative session.   Likely bills will propose to:

  • Provide guardrails and/or moratoriums for data centers
  • Require large fossil fuel corporations to pay into a climate superfund to help cover the costs for climate damages caused by their greenhouse gas emissions — like this year’s Spokane wild fires
  • Establish a deposit program to encourage the recycling of beverage containers
  • Protect coho salmon by banning the use of the chemical 6PPD in motorized vehicle tires
  • Restrict the use of blood-thinning rat poisons which kill Great Horned Owls and other wildlife
  • Reduce the environmental impact of ocean-going vessels by prohibiting their use of high-sulfur fuels
  • Encourage the use of solar-powered center pivot irrigation systems on agricultural lands
  • Authorize/encourage the use of portable solar balcony systems
  • Authorize/encourage the use of residential battery energy storage systems
  • Require Puget Sound Energy to stop initiating new fossil fuel systems to generate electricity

Where to find contact information for legislators:


Beth Doglio, District 22 House of Representatives Position #1
https://leg.wa.gov/legislators/member/beth-doglio

Lisa Parshley, District 22 House of Representatives Position #2
https://leg.wa.gov/legislators/member/lisa-parshley

Jessica Bateman, District 22 Senator
https://leg.wa.gov/legislators/member/jessica-bateman

This is an expanded version of an article that appeared on the Green Team page in the December 2026 Panorama News.

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