Tell Washington Regulators to stop PSE's push for more dangerous gas

Washington's largest utility, Puget Sound Energy, just announced it wants to ramp up its burning of gas over the next two decades. This plan puts our climate and communities at risk. Send your message to regulators now and tell them to reject PSE's gas plans.

The Washington Utility and Transportation Commission is in charge or regulating utilities like PSE. Commissioners have the power to reject utility energy plans that are not in the best interest of customers and Washington at large.

Yet PSE thinks it can get the UTC to approve plans to build many new gas electric plants and infrastructure. This plan flies in the face of Washington's 100% carbon-free electricity law and puts our communities at risk. Fracking pollutes communities across the country through extraction and pipelines, and gas burning in our homes increases the risk of health conditions like childhood asthma. And recent studies have found that fracked gas could be just as bad as carbon-emitter as coal, making this plan devastating for Washington's' climate goals.

We need the Washington UTC to order PSE to stick to the law and to protecting their customers. Send your personalized message now!

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Protect Our Climate Future (Docket #200304 and #200305)

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I am writing to ask the Utilities and Transportation Commission to not allow Puget Sound Energy (PSE) to build new gas power plants for their long-range electricity plan and to reduce their use of gas for the long-range gas plan. According to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), natural gas is far more damaging to the climate than previously thought. Gas may be as bad as coal for the climate. And natural gas certainly is not "natural" when the impacts of hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" to extract gas is poisoning groundwater in communities across the country. Our new 100% clean electricity law -- the Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA) -- requires all utilities to be 80% fossil fuel free by 2030 and 100% by 2045. The last thing we need to do is build new gas power plants that would be around for decades. The intent of CETA is to wind down on gas power in our electricity, not ramp it up. Our new state law that establishes science-based fossil fuel reductions that come from the IPCC, call for 95% reductions by 2050 and 70% reductions by 2040. Yet PSE's long-range plan for its gas utility shows virtually no reductions for the next 20 years. PSE fails to follow recommendations in Washington's new State Energy Strategy that identifies moving buildings from gas to electricity as a key strategy for climate protection. Enough is enough. PSE must take climate change seriously before it is too late. Please reject PSE's electricity and gas plans.