Kicking Gas in The News
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Lynwood Times, July 18, 2025
Kicking Gas unveils ‘Gnome Sweet Gnome’ video on the hidden dangers of gas stoves
The Kicking Gas Campaign has launched “Gnome Sweet Gnome,” a video aimed at illustrating the connections between household gas appliances, public health concerns, and climate impacts, while providing free educational tools and encouraging community engagement to promote safer alternatives.
Herald Net, April 25, 2025
Kicking Gas urges households to get in line for subsidies while funds last
With funding deadlines a month out and federal funding cuts looming, the climate justice group Kicking Gas is urging Snohomish County residents to apply for green appliance subsidies.
Bloomberg, November 8, 2023
An Innovative Financing Model Is Ensuring Everyone Can Afford a Heat Pump
Kicking Gas, an initiative on a tiny Washington island, is showing how community groups can help electrify everything.
The world just suffered through the hottest October on record amid a year of unprecedented heat. That includes searing temperatures in the Pacific Northwest this past summer. While not as extreme as 2021, when a historic heat wave blanketed the region and killed over 800, record-breaking warmth once again struck the region where air conditioning isn’t yet common.
KUOW, May 20, 2025
Whidbey's 'Kicking Gas' campaign keeps funding clean energy despite federal cuts
The Trump administration has been cutting off funding for clean energy as the United States retreats from most government actions to prevent, observe, or adapt to the earth’s rapidly changing climate.
Many local programs to protect human health and the environment depend on federal grants to do their work. Still, some programs in Washington state are managing to continue promoting climate-friendly energy with local money.
Lynwood Times, April 23, 2025
Kicking Gas Campaign—May 21 Deadline to sign up to get up to $10,000 subsidies for heat pumps
Washington’s Kicking Gas campaign has announced a May 21 deadline to get in on up to $10,000 in subsidies for home electrification appliances in Island and Snohomish counties only.