King County’s Strategic Climate Action Plan: Your Taxpayer Dollars Wasted
On June 11, King County Executive Dow Constantine dropped the 735-page 2025 King County Strategic Climate Action Plan (SCAP) onto the desks of the King County Council members. SCAP shows that wasting taxpayer dollars on useless plans filled with what our neighbors to the north call “bafflegab” is alive and well. SCAP proposes myriad actions for the County to “reduce GHG emissions, center frontline communities, and prepare for climate change impacts” based on nonsensical claims about rising sea levels and rising temperatures, neither of which is supported by actual data. It is heavy on buzz phrases like “climate equity,” but short on actual analysis. Most importantly, SCAP doesn’t include any estimates of what the County intends to spend, nor any Read More ›