Seattle Times: WA’s carbon-pricing auctions collect nearly $1.5 billion as allowances reach record price The price of Washington’s carbon emission allowances reached an all-time high in the state’s fourth auction last week, with revenues from the program nearing $1.5...
Seattle Times: WA’s second greenhouse-gas-allowance auction raises over $500M Washington’s second auction of greenhouse-gas pollution allowances last week raised more than half a billion dollars. The Department of Ecology announced Wednesday it had sold almost 8.6...
Seattle Times: WA budgets $2B to cut greenhouse gas emissions; here’s where money will go Washington lawmakers budgeted about $2 billion to boost the adoption of electric bikes, cars and heat pumps, build solar power projects, turn cow poop into energy, and fund other...
KCPQ-FOX: WA greenhouse gas allowance auction raises estimated $300M OLYMPIA, Wash. – Washington state’s first auction of greenhouse-gas pollution allowances has generated an estimated $300 million businesses, people and lawmakers see the cost of emitting...
Seattle Times: WA’s first greenhouse-gas-allowance auction raises estimated $300 million Washington’s first auction of greenhouse-gas pollution allowances raised an estimated $300 million in a closely watched sale as companies, consumers and the Legislature get their...
KNKX/NPR: First auction held for ‘licenses to pollute’ in Washington A big list of carbon polluters in Washington is now subject to a cap and trade regulation system. The first auction was held Tuesday for permits to emit greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Some...
