citizens money at the gas pump through better fuel efficiency. Senator Poulsen’s considerable negotiating skills and dogged persistence ensured success at bringing this bill to the Senate Floor and delivering it to the Governor for signature. It is also worth noting that Senator Poulsen chairs the most powerful environmental committee in the Senate, giving him jurisdiction over each of the environmental community’s priorities during this biennium, and he never failed to deliver. Senator Poulsen is a proven environmental champion, and thus WCV was happy to announce him as Legislator of the Year in 2005." That same year, Poulsen received the Northwest Energy Coalition's Bob Olsen Memorial Conservation Eagle Award. The Eagle is NWEC's highest honor, awarded annually to recognize individual or organizational leadership for a clean and affordable energy future. Poulsen left the Legislature in 2007 to become Director of Government Relations for the Washington Public Utility Districts Association. In 2012 he took a sabbatical to lead a humanitarian project in Zambezi, Zambia. He returned stateside to Spokane, Washington, where he spent five years as Government Relations Director for Greater Spokane Incorporated and today heads Intergovernmental Affairs for the City of Spokane. Erik and his family live in rural Valleyford, Washington. External links Senator Erik Poulsen, 34th District Seattle 1964 births Living people Washington (state) state senators People from Olympia, Washington People from Spokane County, Washington Members of the Washington House of Representatives