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‘You don’t want to stop innovation. You don’t want to stop commerce. But you don’t want to stop people’s civil rights.’

On the agenda starting Jan. 8: Spending Washington’s carbon tax, tweaking the cap-and-invest program and taking a stab at utility rebates.

Officials plan to reintroduce mobile home and renter rights bills involving rent stabilization, tax breaks and civil penalties against landlords.

As manufactured home communities in Washington become less affordable, residents have increasingly organized to galvanize support and push policy.

Even oil companies not participating in the state’s new carbon auction system are pumping up the cost to the consumer.

After residents filed complaints, a state investigation alleges Port Orchard-based management company Hurst & Son violated tenant protection laws.

Waste flushed into Puget Sound harms fish and marine life. A nutrient pricing system — like WA’s cap-and-trade program — may curb pollution.

Port Orchard-based Hurst & Son LLC bought dozens of parks in recent years. Now residents say the company is raising rents and cutting services.

Critics say that eliminating local control of the 10 populations in favor of a statewide plan could threaten Native treaty rights.

Advocacy organization Let’s Go Washington is gathering signatures on six policy-related petitions that it wants to bring to the Legislature.