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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 billion in its first year. The revenue has far outpaced early estimates, and now a group that helped...
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 million 2023 allowances and roughly 2.5 million 2026 allowances, each...
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 efforts related to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The spending will reach just about...
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 greenhouse gases. Read more...Clean & Prosperous Washington is a project of...
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 first glimpse of the cost of emitting in the state. Read more...Clean & Prosperous...
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 people call these permits "licenses to pollute." Until now, those...
Seattle Met: Broad Strokes – David Giuliani revolutionized more than just oral hygiene.
IF IT WEREN’T FOR DAVID GIULIANI’s bout with periodontal disease in the 1980s, we might still be stuck with only one way to scrub our pearly whites. Instead that buildup of plaque inspired Giuliani, an electrical engineer, to fashion a superior tool for oral hygiene...
Newsletter: Port Commissioner Fred Felleman: Building the Blue and Green Economy
California launched its cap and invest program nine years ago. In order to learn from its experience I joined a delegation of elected officials, subject matter experts, and industry leaders to get a firsthand look at what the Golden State has done since they kicked off their program. Many thanks to Clean & Prosperous Washington for producing and hosting the tour.
KUOW: The future of renewable energy may lie in organic waste
The future of renewable energy may lie in organic waste "Recently the nonprofit, Clean and Prosperous Washington reports that CA has fount that its support for dairy digesters has produced the most cost-effective green house gas reductions in the state's Cap and Trade...
KUOW: The future of renewable energy may lie in organic waste
There are lots of renewable energy forms out there: solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear, for instance. But Snohomish County is investing in something different — a kind of renewable energy you may not have heard of before. Read more...Clean & Prosperous Washington is...