{"id":2075,"date":"2018-11-07T17:50:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T01:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2018-11-07T17:50:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T01:50:48","slug":"initiative-1631","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/11\/07\/initiative-1631\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Fee plan rejected by Washington state voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIn the Guardian News 11\/7\/2018: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/nov\/07\/midterms-carbon-pollution-initiative-1631-washington-rejected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Measure known as Initiative 1631 would have put a $15 fee on each ton of carbon dioxide emitted in the state<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However, voters rejected the initiative because \u201cthey understood it was a flawed initiative that would have raised consumer costs substantially while doing very little to meet carbon reduction goals in the state\u201d, according to Catherine Reheis-Boyd, president of the Western States Petroleum Association, which spearheaded the no vote. Oil giant BP and others <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.publicintegrity.org\/2018\/11\/02\/22422\/environmental-ballot-measures\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">spent<\/a> $30m opposing carbon pricing.<br \/>\nEnvironmentalists vowed to persevere. \u201cWhile we still believe that a carbon fee would be a helpful solution, we can and must do more to find and adopt other creative solutions to slow global warming,\u201d said Bruce Speight, director of Environment Washington.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the yes on the 1631 campaign said the group hadn\u2019t conceded defeat yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe oil industry spent the most money in our state\u2019s history and were willing to lie to voters about their support and mislead them on the facts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington vote was just one green-tinged measure rejected by voters. In Colorado, the fossil fuel industry spent more than $40m to help defeat a proposal requiring oil and gas wells to be half a mile from homes, schools and waterways.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Guardian News 11\/7\/2018: Measure known as Initiative 1631 would have put a $15 fee on each ton of carbon dioxide emitted in the state &nbsp; However, voters rejected the initiative because \u201cthey understood it was a flawed initiative that would have raised consumer costs substantially while doing very little to meet carbon reduction &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/11\/07\/initiative-1631\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,17],"tags":[357,359,440,701,702,1837,1854],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-2075","7":"format-standard","8":"category-climate-change","9":"category-politics","10":"category-thinking-about","11":"post_tag-carbon-fee","12":"post_tag-carbon-tax","13":"post_tag-colorado","14":"post_tag-fossil-fuel","15":"post_tag-fossil-fuel-industry","16":"post_tag-washington-state","17":"post_tag-western-states-petroleum-association"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}