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New Environmental Justice Measures Might Revive Cap-and-Trade
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Cap-and-trade law tackles big polluters, fractures political alliances By
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A sweeping climate proposal from Gov. Jay Inslee has both fractured existing alliances and sparked new ones â among activists and oil refineries alike â on its way to becoming Washington state law.
The divisive bill, now awaiting Insleeâs signature after passing the state legislature, puts a cap on how much carbon dioxide the stateâs biggest polluters can spew into the air and makes it more expensive for them to do so.
To keep burning the fossil fuels that both drive the economy and wreck the global climate, operators of major carbon emitters, including refineries, paper mills, and power plants would have to buy permits from the state or from each other.
Sounds good. What s the problem?
Some big unions like this thing. Large environmental groups such as Climate Solutions, Washington Conservation Voters, the Washington Environmental Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Nature Conservancy like this thing. BP, who spent $13 million to kill the 2018 carbon fee initiative, and private utilities support this thing.
But the climate justice community, as represented by about 40 organizations around the state, does not support this thing. And they ve got reasons.
Climate justice advocates argue Washington s cap and trade scheme won t stop air pollution at its source quick enough, and it won t lower emissions in time to meet the state s goals, mostly because big polluters use the allowances and offsets to game the market.
Washington climate activists disagree about how to cut carbon
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Updated Friday, March 12 at 4:40 p.m.
Jill Mangaliman, executive director of Got Green Seattle, photographed at the environmental nonprofit organization’s headquarters in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood on March 11, 2021. (Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut)
Competing efforts to enact landmark climate change legislation have fractured the state’s environmental coalition and Olympia’s all-powerful Democratic caucus, with some activists arguing that the proposal pushed by Gov. Jay Inslee shortchanges minority and low-income communities.
Questions of equity and trust have prompted a prominent environmental-justice coalition to oppose a cap-and-trade bill requested by Inslee. The
Washington Climate Commitment Act, which would create a greenhouse gas market in Washington similar to one in California, is supported by the state’s most influential environmental groups, as well as fossil-fuel giant BP, operator of the state’s largest oil refinery.
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