Governor's climate committee looks at cap-and-trade through an international lens; interstate battles over energy policy
Crosscut reports that the governor’s climate change committee heard yesterday from United Kingdom experts on their experience with cap-and-trade. Among other things, the experts say, “it’s complicated.” However, Inslee suggested that a rudimentary cap-and-trade proposal could be mapped out this year, noting that Great Britain started out with a limited program that grew more sophisticated as the […]
25th of March 2014
NW Clean Air Agency finds no emissions problems from coal transport
The Northwest Clean Air Agency monitored air quality near a Bellingham rail crossing for twenty months – months during which coal was safely transported by rail through the crossing – and found, well, no problems. The Bellingham Herald reports: During the 20 months when the monitor was on the job sampling particulate pollution, it registered air […]