{"id":10434,"date":"2024-02-14T19:58:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T02:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10434"},"modified":"2024-01-18T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T03:05:00","slug":"washington-state-employee-told-to-falsify-cap-and-trade-costs-for-fuel-forecast-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10434","title":{"rendered":"Washington state employee told to falsify cap-and-trade costs for fuel forecast costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Washington state\u2019s cap-and-invest programs became controversial in June when Washington posted the highest gas prices in the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crosscut.com\/briefs\/2023\/12\/wa-state-employee-files-claim-over-order-falsify-fuel-forecast\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/crosscut.com\/briefs\/2023\/12\/wa-state-employee-files-claim-over-order-falsify-fuel-forecast\">Now, a state employee, Jackson Maynard<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/crosscut.com\/briefs\/2023\/12\/wa-state-employee-files-claim-over-order-falsify-fuel-forecast\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/crosscut.com\/briefs\/2023\/12\/wa-state-employee-files-claim-over-order-falsify-fuel-forecast\"> in charge of making fuel forecasts was told to lie and not include the true costs. He&#8217;s now suing for being forced to retire early.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was approached by a supervisor and told not to include what the impacts of cap-and-trade will be. \u2026 They were asking him to lie, and he wouldn\u2019t do that\u201d. The complaint said Smith was told he would need OFM approval on future calculations, he was denied a promotion, and was denied leave to see a sick family member, which he alleges was retaliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscut.com\/briefs\/2023\/12\/wa-state-employee-files-claim-over-order-falsify-fuel-forecast\">https:\/\/crosscut.com\/briefs\/2023\/12\/wa-state-employee-files-claim-over-order-falsify-fuel-forecast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington state\u2019s cap-and-invest programs became controversial in June when Washington posted the highest gas prices in the nation. Now, a state employee, Jackson Maynard, in charge of making fuel forecasts was told to lie and not include the true costs. He&#8217;s now suing for being forced to retire early. \u201cHe was approached by a supervisor and told not to include what the impacts of cap-and-trade will be. \u2026 They were asking him to lie, and he wouldn\u2019t do that\u201d. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10434\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-2Ii","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10435,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434\/revisions\/10435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}