Gov. Jay Inslee might use executive authority to limit greenhouse gases. The action might not be as disruptive as doing nothing.
Washington is in a drought emergency and Seattle has seen a string of record temperatures atop a creepy warm and dry winter and spring (it’s caused by a “blob,” they say — but what’s causing the blob, mmmm?).
Meanwhile, thanks to a cowardly, compromised or flat-earth Legislature, the state is doing nothing to comply with a 2008 law mandating a 50-percent cut in carbon emissions by 2050.
Faced with this, Gov. Jay Inslee has this crr-a-zee idea to actually do something, specifically use his executive power to implement a tax or cap-and-trade system on carbon.