Slog - Comments on Governor Gregoire's Climate Change Legislation http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/governor_gregoires_climate_change_legisl Governor Christine Gregoire unveiled her climate-change bill this morning. It's got some common-sense stuff in it: Require reporting of CO2 emissions; design a regional cap and trade plan by August; and, for now, try to enforce caps on emissions (limit greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2035, and—kinda wimpy—50 percent below 1990 by 2050. Environmentalist activists say that should be more like 80 percent.) It's hard to get truly excited about this in 2008. It all seems like policy that should have been taken care of in 2007. And it's still not... Copyright 2008 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:31:04 -0800 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:07:28 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle The question really should be - is this first cap free? Do corporations get to pollute for free and make taxpayers pay to clean it up? And what happens with cap and trade revenues (permits)? Where does the money go?

My suggestion - buy more green energy plants and use part for green transit.

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