Seattle Times: There was a telling moment just before Gov. Jay Inslee raised his right hand and took the oath of office.
He was introduced as a politician who sees climate change as "an existential threat that transcends politics.'
"More than any other president or governor before him, Jay has an electoral mandate on this issue,' Denis Hayes, organizer of the first Earth Day in 1970, told a packed audience in the rotunda two months ago.
If lawmakers did not grasp the significance of those remarks then,...