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Washington State rejected one, unfortunately, one significant downside of the state solution is that some demand can just easily shift to another location. I wo
by SamPhillips 10y ago
Washington State rejected one, unfortunately, one significant downside of the state solution is that some demand can just easily shift to another location. I wonder if there's a scheme where on state will pass it but only have it come into affect if neighboring states do as well.
- DennisP 10y agoA few states' actions wouldn't help much anyway. The real benefit of state carbon pricing was that the fossil industry was starting to come around on a national carbon price, because they'd rather deal with that than a bunch of different state systems. Between the WA defeat and Trump win, that's probably pushed back a few years.