“It’s time to stop playing legal games and respect the will of the nearly 2 million people who voted to support [the initiative],” Ashli Penner, attorney for the Building Industry Association of Washington, said in a press release. The group, which pushed for Initiative 2066 with the help of political group Let’s Go Washington, filed a lawsuit on Dec. 6 to ensure that the law goes into effect, after opponents tried to block it administratively. “Those who want to ban natural gas have been clear that they’ll use every avenue available to undermine Washington’s democracy and the people of Washington’s right to initiative.”
The second lawsuit was filed this week to
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