Inslee pitches $9 trillion climate strategy to 2020 voters

Joe Teehan

KGMISusan WalshDemocratic Presidential candidate Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, center, speaks during an event at the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant in Washington, Thursday, May 16, 2019, during an event where he unveiled part of his plan to defeat climate change.

5-17-2019

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Democrat presidential candidate and current Washington governor Jay Inslee is pitching a $9 trillion-plus climate action plan that he touts as an economic renaissance and scientific necessity.

Inslee compares his “Evergreen Economy” plan, which combines public and private spending, to FDR’s New Deal, the mobilization of U.S. manufacturing during World War II and the NASA mission to reach the moon.

Inslee’s proposal would combine 28 new or existing programs to shift U.S energy markets to renewable sources; transform U.S. manufacturing and construction; and remake the nation’s infrastructure.

“We need a president guided by science . . . . We need a president who uses the bully pulpit,” he says.