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In the face of a $220 million budget shortfall projected for 2025, the City’s long-awaited, budget-saving Progressive Revenue Stabilization Workgroup finally released a list of nine progressive taxes for the City Council’s consideration. The work group, which brought together big business, developers, labor, and wonks, looked at more than 60 different taxes, referencing an analysis of 26 taxes from the Transit Riders Union (TRU). After that review, they offered basically no new appro...

These community centers, powered by green energy, provide resources during extreme weather and double as gathering spaces during calmer times.

The pressure is on to pass climate bills in Olympia. Attempts to get policies through that limit carbon pollution by putting a price on it have often…

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New environmental justice measures might revive cap-and-trade By Alex Brown, Stateline.org Share: After years of failed attempts, Washington state lawmakers last month celebrated the narrow passage of a bill that places an economywide cap on carbon emissions and charges polluters for their contributions to climate change. But their long-awaited win came as national momentum for such policies, known as cap-and-trade, has begun to wane. California’s first-in-the-nation program, c...

Cap-and-trade law tackles big polluters, fractures political alliances By at 10:24 am A sweeping climate proposal from Gov. Jay Inslee has both fractured existing alliances and sparked new ones — among activists and oil refineries alike — on its way to becoming Washington state law. The divisive bill, now awaiting Inslee’s signature after passing the state legislature, puts a cap on how much carbon dioxide the state’s biggest polluters can spew into the air and m...

Sounds good. Whats the problem? Some big unions like this thing. Large environmental groups such as Climate Solutions, Washington Conservation Voters, the Washington Environmental Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Nature Conservancy like this thing. BP, who spent $13 million to kill the 2018 carbon fee initiative, and private utilities support this thing. But the climate justice community, as represented by about 40 organizations around the state, does not support this thing. A...

Updated Friday, March 12 at 4:40 p.m. Jill Mangaliman, executive director of Got Green Seattle, photographed at the environmental nonprofit organization’s headquarters in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood on March 11, 2021. (Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut) Competing efforts to enact landmark climate change legislation have fractured the state’s environmental coalition and Olympia’s all-powerful Democratic caucus, with some activists arguing that the proposal pushed by Gov. Jay Inslee shortc...