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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, created in 2013, has drawn charges of environmental racism from critics who say it allows industries ...

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 makes it more expensive for them to do so. To keep burning the fossil fuels that both drive the econo...

Sounds good. What's 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. And they've got reasons. Climate justice advocates argue Washington's cap and trade scheme won't sto...

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 shortchanges minority and low-income communities. Questions of equity and trust have prompted a prominent ...