Tagged with State Politics 
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Preserve states’ right to fight climate change 1
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago In his Sept. 22 U.N. speech President Obama got it right: the battle to arrest calamitous climate change can be won only if each of us enlists, perseveres, and fights "for every inch of progress." -
Stand By Me
BC voters back carbon tax 1
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
Carbon emissions met its first big electoral test this week, as British Columbia voters rewarded BC premier Gordon Campbell, who last July instituted North America's first major carbon tax, with a third four-year term.
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The bill formerly known as ...
Washington’s cap-and-trade legislation no longer involves cap and trade 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Washington state's cap-and-trade legislation is no more. Or rather, it has been so stripped of capping and trading that it is no longer worthy of that moniker.
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Tax a mile in another man's shoes
Oregon’s successful mileage tax experiment worked smoothly—and helped curb congestion 3
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks agoA system of per-mile road usage fees can replace our dysfunctional gasoline tax as a way of funding transportation infrastructure.
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Oregon's folly
Oregon tries to undo ethanol leg. while ‘enviros’ lobby for biofuels subsidies 0
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks agoOregon is struggling to undo bad ethanol legislation.
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Washington’s cap-and-trade legislation gutted by Senate committee 1
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Washington’s cap-and-trade legislation passes out of committee 0
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South Carolina governor joins Wisconsin’s and Michigan’s in pushing back against coal 1
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Georgia legislator introduces bill that would restrict coal-fired power plants 3
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Kansas legislature reviving last year’s coal fight 3
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Washington governor unveils green jobs legislation 1
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More on Illinois’ Clean Coal Portfolio Standard 2
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Oregon enviro group calls not for shutdown of coal plant, but for infusion of millions of dollars 19
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Legislature approves ‘Clean Coal Portfolio Standards,’ green-lights new coal plant 6
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Coal group wants climate bill to build more coal plants 1
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Illinois leg. and gov. hoodwinked by ‘clean coal’; will Obama be as susceptible? 4
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New York governor calls for green jobs, renewable energy, and energy efficiency to stimulate economy 1
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New study: Efficiency investment better for Virginia economy and ratepayers than coal plant 3
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Before we debate gas taxes vs. mileage taxes, Oregonians must pay for roads with those taxes 5
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SacBee: California regulators delayed action while fertilizer company duped organic farmers 2
Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago