Washingtonians – It's Time To Make Polluters Pay!
Washington Legislature
Fossil-fueled floods, wildfires, heatwaves and other extreme weather disasters are devastating Washington communities, and costing us millions of dollars. In December of 2025, our state experienced record-shattering flooding that swept away homes and businesses, damaged roads and infrastructure, and cost over $180 million. These disasters alongside other climate-related hazards and health impacts are only growing more frequent, deadly, and costly. The climate crisis is making life more expensive for households too. Working families across the state are paying unaffordable home insurance rates, and higher fuel, energy, healthcare, and food costs.
Why should we foot the bill for a climate crisis that a handful of large fossil fuel companies knowingly fueled? We deserve to keep our money in our pockets. Let's hand the bill to the Big Oil corporations most responsible for climate change. It's time to make polluters pay. Sign the petition!
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Washington communities, local governments, and the state are facing escalating financial burdens from the fossil-fueled climate crisis. From catastrophic flooding, prolonged heat waves, wildfires, drought, and sea level rise to the growing toll on ecosystems, public health, tourism, recreation, and fisheries, such disruptions are only getting worse.
Our state recently experienced unprecedented and catastrophic flooding that destroyed roads, homes, and businesses, damaged infrastructure, prompted evacuation alerts to over 100,000 people, and caused over $180 million in damages. Communities and local governments are now saddled with the cost of rebuilding, as the state grapples with a budget shortfall and federal aid becomes increasingly unreliable.
The climate crisis is making life more expensive for households too. Working families across the state are paying unaffordable home insurance rates, and higher fuel, energy, healthcare, and food costs. As it is, state and local governments, along with our communities, must bear the enormous burdens associated with the climate crisis. And at greatest risk are working people who can't afford to move out of flood zones, stay home from farmwork, or install heat pumps, or otherwise recover and rebuild, and are most likely to be injured or die.
A climate superfund law would allocate part of the growing costs of climate change to the fossil fuel companies most responsible for knowingly fueling the crisis – applying the long-standing and common sense principle that “polluters pay.” A climate superfund offers a fair and equitable way to recover significant costs to help fund local response, adaptation and resilience measures, protect frontline communities, rebuild infrastructure, and create thousands of local jobs. Vermont and New York already passed a climate superfund, with nearly a dozen other states introducing similar legislation. Let's make Washington next.
The idea of a climate superfund is simple: if you make a mess, you should have to help pay to clean it up. Washington must sieze this historic opportunity and Make Polluters Pay their fair share for the the harms and damages caused by their pollution.