Maybe Blue States Won’t Take Serious Action on Climate Change
An important carbon-tax proposal dies in the Washington statehouse.
As President Trump has hacked his way through Obama-era climate policy over the past year, progressives have spread a comforting story.
“The United States has not gone dark on climate action,” goes the tale. The federal government may have left the Paris Agreement, but dozens of U.S. companies and universities are still in. The president may repeal dozens of EPA regulations, but he’s just spurring states and cities are to fight climate change themselves.
On Thursday evening, this optimistic narrative ran aground on reality, when an ambitious measure to introduce the country’s first carbon tax failed in Washington state. The office of Governor Jay Inslee announced that Senate Democrats, despite forming a majority in the chamber, did
