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As much as $20 billion in upgrades will be required, but the electric vehicle transition could still reduce rates statewide.

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It is difficult to identify another policy tool that has been either more celebrated or dismissed in recent decades as carbon pricing.  Long heralded by advocates as a silver bullet to confront climate change, it has increasingly been panned by critics as a political non-starter that distracts from serious climate mitigation.  This paper reviews the last half-decade of global climate policy and carbon pricing experience.  It examines significant political challenges to pricing adoption in nations including the United States.  However, it also demonstrates that carbon pricing can play an in...

A new paper released Monday by an influential liberal group argues that changing how elections are held in the U.S. should be a top-tier issue.

And psst, King County voters: you can vote this fall to supercharge this shift.