How Trump's fight with CA over climate policy impacts WA
For a long time, if you wanted to know what the future looked like for Washington’s climate policies, you just had to look at California.
The Golden State put a carbon auction in place in 2012. 10 years later, state lawmakers here set up our own cap and trade system.
California passed legally binding emissions goals in 2006. Washington did that about a decade later.
And let’s talk car sales: California passed a law that will ban the sale of most gasoline powered vehicles by 2035. Washington passed a similar law a few years ago.
But now, California’s law has come under the…
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