Today, the Leftist-biased Washington State Supreme Court did what it was expected to do, and threw out a Citizen Initiative challenging a state law outlawing the use of natural gas for any reason, including home heating and appliances. Initiative 2066 passed handily in 2024, and the usual suspects immediately challenged it, stating that the People had not fully understood what they were voting for. The main reason for the denial was violation of the “single-subject” rule stating that all initiatives can have only one subject. At least one Justice on the court dissented on that, stating that the initiative could have been constitutional if parts of it were removed.
But in our state, Climate Alarmism is received wisdom, and the People are not allowed to challenge the All-mighty Government’s rush toward “clean energy.” So now, the use of natural gas, a clean, inexpensive, reliable fuel, will be phased out, and everyone currently using gas for heating, water heating, clothes drying, and cooking will eventually be forced, at the point of a government gun, to switch to all-electric. Of course, in its headlong rush to “renewable” energy, the State gave little thought to the strength of its existing grid. And they also neglected the fact that “renewable” energy is exceptionally unreliable. When the sun doesn’t shine or the wind is not blowing, NO energy is produced for the people to use.
Weaponized State Supreme Court
NO NATURAL GAS FOR YOU
Washington high court tosses natural gas measure approved by voters
Justices, in a 6-3 decision, found Initiative 2066 unconstitutional because it dealt with multiple unrelated subjects
Sept. 17, 2026
In 2024, Washington voters approved Initiative 2066 that aimed to halt the state’s push to end natural gas use in homes and buildings. On Thursday, the state Supreme Court found the measure unconstitutional. Shea White of Du Pont, Washington, pictured above, wrote in the number of signatures initially submitted for the measure in July 2024.
The state Supreme Court on Thursday invalidated a ballot measure approved by voters in 2024 that sought to slow Washington’s shift from natural gas toward technology like electric heat pumps.
In a 6-3 decision, the justices affirmed a lower court ruling, finding Initiative 2066 “unconstitutional in its entirety” because it runs afoul of a provision limiting citizen initiatives to no more than one subject.
Because the measure includes “several provisions with markedly distinct purposes and regulatory effects, embracing four distinct subjects. It is not possible by judicial construction to sever and save any of the separate provisions and therefore I-2066 is unconstitutional in its entirety,” Chief Justice Debra Stephens wrote for the majority.
Justice Sal Mungia wrote a dissent that Justices Sheryl Gordon McCloud and Charles Johnson joined. He argued he would find the initiative constitutional after removing three sections that “silently amend the law” in a way that voters could not understand their impact.
“Courts are required to construe initiatives in favor of constitutionality when possible,” he wrote. “This court can uphold much of I-2066 as constitutional and should do so.”
The initiative was 21 pages and broken into more than a dozen sections. It aimed to unwind changes to the state energy code that offer builders incentives in the permitting process for choosing electric heat pumps – which provide both heating and cooling in the same unit – instead of natural gas furnaces.
And it sought to repeal provisions in a 2024 state law intended to accelerate Puget Sound Energy’s transition away from natural gas. The measure also would have prevented approval of utility rate plans that would end or restrict access to natural gas, or make it too costly.
The Building Industry Association of Washington drew up the measure and enlisted Let’s Go Washington, a conservative political committee, to gather signatures to get it on the ballot.
Nearly 52% of voters approved it as it passed in 34 of Washington’s 39 counties including Snohomish and Pierce.
A coalition including Climate Solutions, Washington Conservation Action, Front and Centered, King County and the city of Seattle filed its suit within days of the election’s certification.
Its attorneys argued in a court filing that the measure’s “most obvious constitutional infirmity” was that it violated a prohibition on what is known as “logrolling.”
This is a practice in which an unpopular policy is attached to a popular one to increase its likelihood of enactment. The measure, opponents argued, contained several distinct policy choices and required voters to enact all or none of them.
The state of Washington is the primary defendant. The Building Industry Association of Washington was allowed to intervene to defend the measure.
Greg Lane, executive vice president of the Building Industry Association of Washington, repeatedly said in the course of the legal fight 2024 that “every single section” addressed the broader policy of protecting consumers’ choice to access and use natural gas.
The case known as Climate Solutions vs. State of Washington/Building Industry Association was argued on Jan. 22.
This is a developing story.
The above is one of the plaintiffs in the Initiative 2066 case. That company receives generous Government Grants of Taxpayer Dollars to take away your right to heat your home the way YOU decide. They also recycle some of that government money right back to the Democrats in campaign contributions. What’s a little money-laundering among friends?
Susan Says below:
CRIMINALIZING NATURAL GAS
9/17/2026
The fight is about DEPRIVING the people of Washington State.
Remove ALL things that are necessary to sustain life … that’s what this is really about.
Washington State government is the ENEMY of the people and the United States.
And then, she says:
My husband has SEVERE sleep apnea. That means when the electricity gets SHUT OFF, which has happened two nights in a row in Lewis County, I must wake him up in an effort to prevent him from dying (stop breathing while asleep).
Lewis County PUD is now doing practice runs at night, shutting off the electricity under the guise of maintenance, in an effort to get everyone accustomed to planned, scheduled blackouts beginning in 2027.
Most people have heat pumps. In Lewis County, we do NOT have piped Natural Gas, only electricity and propane.
Next on the chopping block will be to make propane illegal. And then, they will make electricity illegal.
Everything will become illegal in Washington State, including the right to breathe.
I have a very TIGHT DEADLINE. I must close.
I am just worn out with all of the tyranny and BULL SHIT in Washington State.
I’m not certain of the timeline now, on when the State is going to issue final rules on the elimination of natural gas from the state economy. But when it does, there are going to be a ton of very unhappy restaurateurs. You may have noticed that the vast majority of restaurants use gas stoves to cook their food, because of its “instant on” and easily-changeable heat levels. If they have to remove those gas stoves to install electric ones, your meal will take twice as long, and probably cost more, as they now have to pay for all-new appliances and electricity costs more and is much less efficient than natural gas. All home cooks who use gas stoves will have the same problem.
The worst part of this whole fiasco is that the original “Endangerment Finding” by the US Environmental Protection Agency was totally incorrect! CO2 is NOT a pollutant, and is impossible to effectively reduce! It is also PLANT FOOD, and sustains every single crop that people eat! The environmental movement has caused so much havoc and unnecessary curtailment of human activity that it will be nearly impossible to reduce. The inertia caused by all the zillions of environmental laws and regulations will make stopping it difficult if not impossible.
I despair for the ordinary people and businesses whose lives are about to become much more complicated and expensive, for no good reason.
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