Voters in Washington state are being asked this fall whether to repeal one of the most progressive climate policies ever passed by a state Legislature less than two years after it took effect.
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“The grand policy goal is the higher-level thing of fighting climate change, reducing carbon emission,” said Todd Donovan, a professor of political science at Western Washington University. “But you get down below 30,000 feet to the voters and it’s, ‘How does this effect my gas taxes?’” “It’s making everything more expensive, because everything you buy gets delivered to the store or to your door on a truck,” Let's Go Washington spokesperson Hallie Balch said in a video about the initiative last month.
Washington was the second state to launch this type of program, after California. It started out with aggressive emissions targets of 7% annual decreases, set to ease up from 2031 on. Repealing it would sink plans to link up Washington's carbon market with others and could be a blow to its efforts to help other states launch similar programs.
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