Seattle Times: WA raises estimated $1.8 billion in first year of carbon market “Washington state has raised an estimated $1.8 billion through the sale of allowances to polluting businesses at carbon auctions this year. “The state Department of Ecology...
Seattle Times: Opponents of WA climate law file signatures to repeal it “This is not the time to put the brakes on Washington’s premier and effective climate policy that is backed by businesses, labor, tribes, community groups and environmental organizations. It is...
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...