There are all kinds of things we can do right now, and we ought to be taking those steps.

I don't think there's a commitment in this administration.

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

Washington's approach to salmon recovery is a national model. We were the first in the history of the federal Endangered Species Act to have local communities statewide write recovery plans and set priorities for saving salmon.

The same arguments were made 40 years ago. It wasn't right to discriminate based on race, and it isn't right to discriminate based on gender identity. It's not right and it's cruel.