Re: “Opponents of WA local weather regulation submit signatures to repeal it” [Nov. 21, Local News] and “What the Nationwide Local weather Report Says Concerning the Pacific Northwest” [Nov. 21, Local News]:
Do not do away with the Local weather Commitments Act. When you suppose fuel prices an excessive amount of, suppose once more. US local weather and climate disasters value us $1 billion each three weeks, in response to local weather scientist Katharine Hayhoe. We can’t afford all these rising future disasters brought on by carbon emissions. In line with Washington State College local weather scientist Deepti Singh, emissions in Washington state are rising in comparison with the nation.
Give the additional CCA cash to the state’s Carbon Public sale Rebate program, which might take the surplus income from the carbon tax and ship the cash on to registered automobile house owners within the type of a test. Or assist the nationwide rising worth on carbon, the place the cash goes again to the folks, proposed by the Residents’ Local weather Foyer, of which I’m the top of the Seattle chapter. A month-to-month test in everybody’s mail will change folks’s minds and be an incentive, whereas paying fossil gas firms for his or her years of local weather disasters.
Together with new transmission line allowing reforms and electrical incentives from the Inflation Discount Act, along with your assist, we are able to obtain the required 50% discount by 2030. This may assist restrict the sort of disasters brought on by carbon emissions.
Anne Engstrom, Seattle
