Inslee to Launch ‘Climate Mission Tour’ This Week
Inslee to travel to Iowa on Tuesday, Nevada on Saturday in first trip as presidential candidate
Seattle - Governor Jay Inslee will kick off his 2020 presidential bid with a multi-state “Climate Mission Tour.” Inslee’s tour starts this week in Iowa and Nevada.
The “Climate Mission Tour” will focus on the opportunity to create millions of jobs throughout the country while defeating the greatest challenge of our time—climate change. Gov. Inslee will meet workers in the clean energy economy, talk with students and environmental activists, and hear from people around the country about the impacts of climate change and the need to invest in clean energy job growth.
Governor Inslee is the only presidential candidate that will make defeating climate change the top priority. After announcing his presidential bid on Friday, Inslee will start his “Climate Mission Tour” off in Iowa on Tuesday, March 5th with stops in Cedar Rapids, Ames, and Des Moines. The governor will travel to Nevada later in the week. Additional travel will be announced shortly.
Defeating climate change has been the driving force of the Governor’s public life and will be the focus of his bid for president.
Details of the Iowa visit are below:
Tuesday, March 5th:
Clean energy tour - SiteGen Solar, Paulson Electric, 3050 12th St SW, Cedar Rapids, IA
12:30 PM CST
Paulson Electric is an Iowa-based full service electrical contracting company with over 150 employees serving eastern Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois. The Cedar Rapids office includes a 20.7kw solar photovoltaic array on the roof which produces one-third of the company’s annual energy usage.
Student clean energy roundtable - Iowa State University, 1124 Biorenewables Research Lab, 617 Bissell Rd Ames, IA
3:30 PM CST
Student leaders will present their work on climate change to Governor Inslee and talk about what they’re doing to fight climate change both on campus and beyond.
West Des Moines climate gathering - Law offices of Lawyer, Lawyer, Dutton & Drake, 1415 Grand Ave West Des Moines, IA
7:00 PM CST
Local climate change activists will gather to talk with Governor Inslee about their climate change concerns, what they’re doing to address it locally, and the actions they want to see their next president take.
Governor Inslee will be in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, March 9th.
