Make no mistake, the only thing Donald Trump has going for him is the economy that he inherited from his nemesis President Obama — but for which he takes full and unwarranted credit. To keep that economy rolling in the face of a global economic slowdown, Trump has unleashed wide-open, broad spectrum pillaging of the nation’s natural resources for the sole purpose of aiding his re-election bid which, at this point, isn’t looking great. He’s far behind Democratic challengers in states he carried last election and, although he’d never admit it, the causes are the results of his own actions — tariffs and global warming impacts.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee has made the climate crisis a central tenant of his presidential bid, which should come as no surprise considering his state faces the environmental and economic crises from a rising and warming ocean. Higher tides, devastating storm surges and failing runs of salmon that have nourished the area’s inhabitants for millennia are just some of the impacts that motivated Washington’s legislature to demand its utilities cease to use coal-fired power — a move that now impacts Montana’s antiquated and uneconomical coal plants, spreading the crisis beyond Washington’s borders.