I found http://www.vox.com/2016/10/18/13012394/i-732-carbon-tax-washington http://www.vox.com/2016/10/18/13012394/i-732-carbon-tax-wash... very helpful in under

I found http://www.vox.com/2016/10/18/13012394/i-732-carbon-tax-washington http://www.vox.com/2016/10/18/13012394/i-732-carbon-tax-wash... very helpful in understanding some of what was going on with this ballot initiative, and in particular why the environmentalist establishment opposed it. That opposition explains some of the strange outcome.