The Capitol Buzz is a weekday summary of online news stories from across the state, highlighting policies, politics and other issues that affect Washingtonians.
ABORTION
- Do not cooperate with abortion-related investigations, Inslee tells law enforcement (The News Tribune)
- Inslee orders state patrol to refuse cooperation with other states’ abortion investigations (The Spokesman-Review)
- After Roe ruling, Edmonds to consider abortion rights measure (The Everett Herald)
- Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., supports a national strike over Roe’s demise (KNKX Radio)
AGRICULTURE & WATER
BUSINESS, ECONOMY & LABOR
CONGRESS
COURTS (FEDERAL)
- WA reacts to Supreme Court decision curbing EPA authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions (The Seattle Times)
- Inslee, Northwest lawmakers react after Supreme Court restrict EPA’s ability to regulate carbon emissions (The Spokesman-Review)
- A ‘crying shame’: Inslee slams U.S. Supreme Court EPA decision (KNWN Radio)
- Washington governor slams ruling on power plant emissions (AP)
- Does SCOTUS ruling on public school prayer cross the line dividing church and state? (KUOW Radio)
COURTS (STATE)
CRIME
EDUCATION
ENERGY & UTILITIES
- Public comment period open for largest proposed energy storage project in Washington (Northwest News/KNKX Radio)
- WA had states’ fifth-highest number of power outages last year. Here’s how to prepare (The News Tribune)
ENVIRONMENT
FISH
HEALTH CARE & HOSPITALS
HIGHER EDUCATION
HOMELESSNESS
- Pierce, King counties announce new safe parking lot programs for RVs and other vehicles (KUOW Radio)
- Colville asks county for $125,000 to prepare homeless camp (The Center Square)
HOUSING
LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Tacoma fights release of internal police records related to officers charged in death of Manuel Ellis (KNKX Radio)
- OPINION: Bringing humanity into the science of policing (Monica Alexander, executive director, Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission/The Seattle Times)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
MILITARY & VETERANS
OTHER STATES
- House majority leader visits Oregon to pitch $52B CHIPS Act: ‘Our competitors are not sitting still’ (The Oregonian)
- Portland leaders poised to limit expansion of fossil fuel terminals (OPB)
PARKS
STATE GOVERNMENT
- Whistleblowers can’t be muzzled under new Washington law (The Center Square)
- EDITORIAL: Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler should resign (The Seattle Times)
TRANSPORTATION
TRIBAL ISSUES
- WA launches new alert system for missing Indigenous people (Yakima Herald-Republic)
- Washington state set to activate nation’s first Missing Indigenous Person Alert system (The News Tribune)
WILDLIFE
- Boaters, sightseers told to keep distance from southern resident orcas deemed ‘vulnerable’ (The Seattle Times)
- Washington issues emergency order to protect endangered Southern Resident killer whales (The News Tribune)
- Bear hunt may be rejected before it’s proposed (The Lewiston Tribune)
- Washington Fish and Wildlife opens aquatic invasive species check station at Clarkston site (The Lewiston Tribune/The Spokesman-Review)
WOLVES
