The Seattle Times reports that this week Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) introduced his multi-billion dollar plan to tax fossil-fuel emissions: Gov. Jay Inslee Tuesday urged Washington lawmakers to embrace his ambitious plan to tax fossil-fuel emissions in Washington state.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) proposed a supplemental state budget that creates a new carbon tax to replenish the state’s Rainy Day Fund after spending reserves on public education, a little more than a year after Washington voters rejected a carbon tax. 

A recent Morning Consult poll shows U.S. companies’ green initiatives aren’t registering with consumers.

A recent presentation by Oregon Gov. Kate Brown's (D) administration to the Oregon Board of Agriculture on their "cap and invest" cap-and-trade proposal did not answer many questions on the specifics of the plan, according to a recent editorial from Capital Press.

NextGen America, the national environmentalist group founded by California billionaire Tom Steyer, will spend $200,000 promoting the cap and trade plan scheduled to be introduced in the Oregon legislature next year.

In an editorial published last week, The Bend Bulletin opposed a carbon tax proposal expected to be introduced in the Oregon legislature in 2018, citing a lack of trust in state officials.

Thousands of records reviewed by The Oregonian showed “a years-long pattern of cozy regulatory relationships and institutional failure” with the Oregon Department of Energy’s (DOE) management of renewable energy incentives

Road-user industry groups in Oregon have asked the Oregon Supreme Court to overturn a new tax on the sale of new cars that will be directed to subsidize electric vehicles (EVs):

California utility Southern California Edison (SCE) released its “vision” for how California can cut greenhouse emissions 40 percent by 2030: