Tag: carbon dioxide

By John Stang, Originally published by Crosscut Gov. Jay Inslee is putting a cap-and-trade system and a carbon tax into play as ways to tackle the fallout from global warming in Washington. Those are the two propositions that an Inslee-appointed carbon emissions advisory task force will begin studying today, according to a document posted on the governor’s […]

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By John Stang, originally published by Crosscut Temperatures are rising on Mars. Jupiter too. And on Triton, the largest of Neptune’s 14 moons. And none of these solar system bodies has any sport utility vehicles driving around on their surfaces. This is what climate change expert Jay Lehr, a physicist with the Chicago-based Heartland Institute, told the […]

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