A dozen Washington state tribes and tribal organizations will receive nearly $11 million dollars in federal grants to help mitigate the disproportionate impacts of sea-level rise, drought and other climate change-related stressors to the land and water.
Washington is required by law to eliminate or offset all of its greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050. But generous exemptions for more than 40 of the state’s biggest polluters in a forthcoming carbon market could push that goal beyond reach.
Transportation is the largest source of climate pollution in the state. So why can't the Legislature do something to get more electric vehicles into the hands of working people?
A suite of legislation under consideration in Olympia could be a "grand bargain" for climate change and longterm funding of transportation projects. Bills include a clean-fuels standard, carbon pricing and $18.7 billion for transportation projects.
State lawmakers will make another try at gas or carbon taxes in 2021 as debt rises, highways crumble and the atmosphere warms. They've been somewhere around 15 cents per gallon in the past, and new talks have started.
