Local rep to head House Environment and Energy Committee

OLYMPIA – Ninth District Representative Mary Dye will lead the House Environment and Energy Committee for the state House Republicans when the 2021 legislative session begins January 11.

Dye, a Republican from Pomeroy, has served as assistant ranking member on the committee in the past, and will now be the ranking Republican in the leadership position.

Appointed to the House of Representatives in 2015, Dye graduated in 2018 from the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region Foundation’s Legislative Energy Horizon Institute, which educates state legislators on the North American energy infrastructure a...