Washington State’s cap-and-trade plan for carbon emitters
Dec.21, 2014 in
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Olympian: At the heart of Gov. Jay Inslee’s climate-action and state budget plans is a cap-and-trade system that would charge potentially 130 major polluters for their emission of greenhouse gases.
The goal is to make heavy emitters, including fuel refineries and fuel suppliers, pay for their releases of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas linked by scientists to global warming.
Inslee hasn’t set a price yet, but based on a similar California plan, the state could raise almost $1 billion a year with a price…
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