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Re:A new website backed by Al Gore tracks big polluters by name by gruez on Monday November 14, 2022 @12:43PM (#33597863)
>Interestingly, Washington State passed a carbon fee proposal that's basically the same as that, shortly after

Source? It took me a few minutes to find what the piece of legislation was called (Climate Commitment Act), but it's surprisingly hard to find what the bill actually does. The first result I found was a website from the state of washington[1], which only contains vague statements like "A market-based solution" and "Cleaner air for overburdened communities", without actual concrete measures. The second result from washington state university[2] isn't much better. It seems like the bill institutes some sort of cap and trade system with details to be hammered out later, which isn't the same as a straight carbon tax (as proposed in the ballot measure) and the financial impact is much less clear. I suspect the latter is why it was passed at all.

[1] https://ecology.wa.gov/Air-Climate/Climate-Commitment-Act

[2] https://csanr.wsu.edu/the-climate-commitment-act-is-coming/

Re:A new website backed by Al Gore tracks big polluters by name by ZeroGravitas on Monday November 14, 2022 @12:56PM (#33598056)
Cap and trade and carbon fees are broadly interchangeable as pricing mechanisms.

Each specific location has carve outs and exemptions and phase-ins etc. but basically, farmers will be able to earn roughly $40 dollars per ton of emissions avoided, and other large industries will be paying $40 per ton of emissions and that figure will change as they measure progress to meet their commitments to reduce emmisions by 95%.

It might also drop to $30 if they link up their market with California and Quebec.

For comparison, the ballot measure intended to:

> enact a carbon emissions fee of $15 per metric ton of carbon beginning on January 1, 2020;

> increase the fee by $2 annually until the state's greenhouse gas reduction goals are met;

and

> use the revenue from the fee to fund various programs and projects related to the environment.