FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Feb. 27, 2013 CONTACT: Brendon Wold, Senior Information Officer – (360) 786-7698                      Rep. Shelly Short – (360) 786-7908                                            Rep. Shelly Short’s bill to make DOE more accountable and transparent passes House ‘We need to make sure accountability and transparency don’t get lost in the bureaucracy,’ says...

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 14, 2013 CONTACT: Brendon Wold, Senior Information Officer – (360) 786-7698                  Rep. Shelly Short – (360) 786-7908                  Rep. Joel Kretz – (360) 786-7988                      Seventh District lawmakers say new ‘wolf meetings’ in NE Washington a direct result of public input When the Washington State Department of...

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 7, 2013 CONTACT: Brendon Wold, Senior Information Officer – (360) 786-7698                  Rep. Shelly Short – (360) 786-7908                      Legislation allowing livestock owners to kill wolves receives public hearing     The House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee held a public hearing this week on a bill...

How much fish do you eat? Another “head scratcher” from Olympia By Rep. Shelly Short As the ranking member on the House Environment Committee, I’ve witnessed several proposals over the last few years – in the form of legislation and proposed rules by state agencies – that I call “head...

Special to The Olympian (published 2/19/11)   The Olympian’s recent editorial regarding the future of TransAlta’s coal-fired electrical plant in Centralia demands a level-headed response free from the clouded rhetoric of extreme environmentalism and political correctness. First of all, let’s all agree clean air and water are a necessity for...

Barr-Tech goes to Olympia A local company located in Sprague, Washington testified before the state House Technology, Energy and Communications Committee during a work session this week on its efforts to turn common yard waste, food waste and other bio-solids into compost, fertilizer and green energy. Barr-Tech, LLC, which was...

Concerned that over-reaching climate change rules could have a devastating effect on Washington’s stagnant economic recovery, Republican members of the Washington State House Ecology and Parks Committee sent a letter to the state Department of Ecology (DOE) last week, asking the department to stop drafting rules governing greenhouse gas emissions....

Reps. Joel Kretz and Shelly Short applauded the inclusion of $2.75 million in this year’s state capital budget aimed at addressing long-overdue forest restoration projects in Northeast Washington. The funds were secured in the budget by Rep. Norma Smith, a Whidbey Island Republican who serves on the House Capital Budget...

OP-ED by Rep. Shelly Short   Washington citizens are proud of our state’s tremendous natural resources, abundance of clean, renewable energy and rich history of environmental stewardship. As one of the globe’s cleanest states, emitting less than three-tenths of 1 percent of the world’s carbon, we have a lot to...