Explain the pause on a key climate-change bill
By
Seattle Times Editorial Board
Seattle Times
March 13, 2009
Editorial on Cap and Invest in The Seattle Times.
"AFTER years of steady progress on goals of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, the Washington State Legislature is blinking in the face of legislation sought by Gov. Christine Gregoire to make good intentions enforceable.
Until now, Washington has played a creative role in a movement — in the absence of federal leadership — to deal with climate change at the state level through regional compacts..."
