cap and trade

The Climate Commitment Act puts a cap on carbon emissions and raises billions of dollars for programs that help the state prepare for and adapt to climate change.

If approved, Initiative 2117 would prohibit Washington state agencies from imposing any kind of carbon tax and repeal the state's “cap and invest” law on carbon emissions.

The political action committee Let's Go Washington is behind six initiatives to change or repeal a handful of the state's new laws and programs, with a major GOP donor financing the effort.

Washington state's first auction of greenhouse-gas pollution allowances has generated an estimated $300 million as companies, consumers and the Legislature get a glimpse of the cost of emitting greenhouse gases that are increasing climate catastrophes.

State lawmakers passed significant legislation this session that takes concrete steps to address climate pollution and the concerns of communities that it…

Anger lingers among tribal leaders in Washington after a surprise veto from Gov. Jay Inslee last month. As he signed the cap and trade Climate Commitment…

The pressure is on to pass climate bills in Olympia. Attempts to get policies through that limit carbon pollution by putting a price on it have often…

California's signature climate plan is under attack from environmental justice groups. Some say the cap-and-trade program hasn't done anything to clean up the air in low-income communities.

Washington state’s Department of Ecology says the magnitude of threats from climate change are so severe, it needs to set limits on air pollution. The…

Environmental groups are calling the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan the strongest action the U.S. has ever taken to fight climate change.Yet in…