Washington debunks federal climate report with new data

The Washington Department of Ecology has fired back at a draft U.S. Department of Energy report being used to prop up the current administration’s rollback of federal climate rules. Ecology didn’t just disagree — it flat-out called the report cherry-picked, misleading, and allergic to peer-reviewed science.

At the same time, Ecology dropped its own analysis showing that Washington communities are already dealing with climate fallout.

“This is not a game – wildfire smoke, heat waves and drought are putting lives and livelihoods at risk,” said Ecology Director Casey Sixkiller. “Denying climate change by cherry-picking information won’t alter the reality on the ground.”

In a letter to U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Sixkiller accused the feds of conveniently ignoring decades of climate