This wasn’t the end, they swore; it was just the beginning. Close. Some say the death of the carbon tax was easily foreseen. “The fundamentals are there,” he concluded. For years, economists have said that a carbon tax—which essentially builds an economic incentive to curtail emissions of carbon dioxide—is one of the most efficient ways to combat climate change. The curious death of Initiative 1631 and what … Carbon Tax G. Metcalf Feb. 24, 2019 3 emissions, 36% are from transportation, 16% industrial, 11% residential and commercial, and 36% from At least 10 other states have introduced carbon fee or tax proposals, however, as emissions of the greenhouse gas linked to global warming hit an all-time high last year, scientists found. Jay Inslee, a 2018 carbon fee bill also died in the Senate. Over the summer, a ragged line of wildfires scorched the Northwest, curling from British Columbia through eastern Washington and down to Oregon. Is any carbon tax doomed to fail? When she spoke to voters in Spokane, not many people there knew what the tax was, let alone what it had to do with the wildfire smoke outside their windows. Climate activists drew what they called a “thin, green line” at the coastal Northwestern states, adopting a term coined by de Place to describe their role as a barricade against a fossil fuel boom. “It still didn’t seem concrete or tangible to people,” Stevenson said. In those days, Golden was fighting the “greenhouse effect,” an early name for the warming effects of carbon dioxide, and he won support by pointing to both reduced energy costs and environmental benefits. President Barack Obama’s White House seemed committed, along with much of the world, to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases through regulations and other incentives, with states like Washington, Oregon and California poised to help lead the way. This was the state’s second attempt to tax carbon emissions, and in the months leading up to the vote, an unusually wide swath of Washington society had turned out in support. More: U.S. impacts of climate change are intensifying, federal report says, More: Carbon dioxide in our atmosphere may soar to levels not seen in 56 million years. “The mainstream environmental groups are less willing to hear from the periphery,” he said. We're a nonprofit (so it's tax-deductible), and reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget. “When we’re thinking of solutions, I’m thinking in two to four years,” she said. If you value what you get from Mother Jones, please join us with a tax-deductible donation today so we can keep on doing the type of journalism 2021 demands. She came to believe it was a failure of Washington’s green self-mythology: “In Washington, we’re excited to support environmental action, as long as we don’t have to pay for it,” she said. By 9 p.m., Initiative 1631 was dead. I checked the televisions: A few counties were leaning toward approving the measure. This proposal is effective January 1, 2020. Terminals, refineries and railways exist in the material realm, de Place said. A Carbon Tax in Washington State Seemed Like a Sure Thing. In August, a mother orca lost her calf, then carried its body on her nose for 17 days, a painful reminder of species loss and habitat degradation. “Our quest is to deal with climate change.”. But for now climate activists are stuck with the art of the possible. Not long ago, I met Golden in a noisy coffee shop a little over a mile away from the site of the election night failure, for a final postmortem. And the messaging of the “No” on 1631 campaign fed on the rich vein of discontent around accountability for the funds the tax would raise, as well as the worry that voters, rather than large-scale polluters, would end up paying for the cost of climate change. They focus on consolidating a liberal base, he said, to their detriment. I thought they could tell me what killed the carbon tax, and I spent many rambling hours on the phone with them, discussing the tax’s details, and its flaws. This story was originally published by High Country News. Today, reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget, allows us to dig deep on stories that matter, and lets us keep our reporting free for everyone. Washington voters, in other words, were given a specific action to undertake while they lived out the specific consequences of climate change. Copyright © 2021 Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress. But what killed the carbon tax was not a blind, party-line vote: the measure failed in red and blue strongholds alike. But the moral urgency, the sense that life after oil is a real possibility, the feeling that anything useful can be done — those aren’t. The Lummi Nation successfully killed a proposal for an export terminal for Montana coal outside Bellingham. “He said, ‘I’m glad you’re working on this,’ ” she told me. And there, at least, they seem to have taken the hint: That package sidesteps a carbon tax entirely. Putting a policy to that will be as daunting as it is urgent. Several local governments have committed to 100 percent renewable energy, he said, and the state has a slate of pending bills from creating a clean fuel program to building light rail, giving people more options to get around. It also sets the carbon fee at a fixed rate, without increases over time. Less than a month after the carbon tax failed, Gov. “The essence of strategy is making choices,” Harvey said. Similar state proposals have failed. Jay Inslee, a Democrat who backed it and has suggested that he might run for president on a climate change platform, held a press conference to announce a new green legislative deal. Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the. That reality has helped green Washington’s politics and identity, especially in the western part of the state. “They were holed up in the mountains with their coal, and they were trying to figure out where to go,” Golden said. Available Documents. “So much of the region had already invested in its identity as being on the forefront of clean energy,” Golden said. This proposal impacts approximately 42,000 taxpayers and will impact the state general fund in the following ways: “A lot of environmentalists are approaching conservation and pollution reduction from a normative perspective: We have to reduce pollution and protect the environment,” Dolšak told me. The carbon tax bill proposes a tax of $10 per metric ton of carbon emissions, just half of what Inslee originally suggested. Last fall, the majority of voters in my legislative district voted against Initiative 1631, the carbon tax scheme. Then a strange hush swept the room, rippling outward from the televisions. Washington may already be learning its lesson. By 2008, Golden had helped craft local and state commitments to clean energy, and climate activists stepped back, thinking their local fight was mostly over and the federal government would pick up the slack. And although the cost of new standards varies between industries, within them, the costs are the same. She used that argument to talk to her dad about climate change, invoking his sense of familial values and his worry for his kids and grandkids. “We’re animals, and we live in a physical world. But Initiative 1631 failed, and Washington must now confront a darker version of itself, in the kind of identity crisis that comes only in defeat. This was the state’s second attempt to tax carbon emissions, and in the months leading up to the vote, an unusually wide swath of Washington society had turned out in support. March 27, 2019. And in the state of Washington, the carbon tax initiatives have suffered two successive defeats in 2016 and 2018. “It had no business not passing.”. New tax hard to swallow; Washington Democrats pull fast one in Legislature’s last weekend By The News Tribune Editorial Board April 30, 2019 12:30 PM , In Washington, fossil fuel companies and lobbyists spent more than $30 million to defeat Initiative 1631, versus $17 million from supporters. “The word ‘tax’ is probably the most reviled word,” said Hal Harvey, CEO of the firm Energy Innovation, which helps design renewable energy policies around the globe. join us with a tax-deductible donation today. As the room emptied, I stood there refreshing my own phone, wondering what had just happened, and what it might mean. In the past decade, the Northwest has seen a slew of wins in fights against carbon-emitting infrastructure—and a slew of losses on climate policy. Effective date 5/7/2019. On our dependence on fossil fuels, “we’re fighting something that’s dying,” Golden told me. Initiative 1631’s demise might have had something to do with moments like this, where the connection between taxing carbon and more immediate fears about one’s health or one’s job becomes obscured. In the weeks after, as they ate dinner or got ready for work, they’d dissect the results: Is Washington turning conservative? That, Prakash said, “was myopic.” (Mo McBroom, director of government relations for The Nature Conservancy’s Washington chapter, noted that 1631 differed from 732, as it “would have provided investments to make our state more resilient to climate change, including reducing risk of forest fire and addressing drought” and drew support from businesses, prominent philanthropists like Bill Gates, and health professionals.). It is impossible to separate ourselves from the climate far enough to get a clear look at it, something equally true of many injustices and economic structures. Under bills introduced in the House and Senate Tuesday, a proposed tax of $20 per metric ton of carbon emissions would start on July 1, 2019 and increase annually by … Rather, she’ll look to her competitor at Peugeot, who is under the same constraints. In Canada, for example, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced blowback for his carbon tax proposal. Daisy-chains of young supporters, linked arm-in-arm, wound through the crowd, their shirts proclaiming “Yes on 1631.” “This energy!” a man standing nearby exclaimed, surveying the clusters of people shouting enthusiastically about the results. The simplest explanation is that people just don’t like taxes, and oil and gas outspent green groups to exploit that dislike. All Rights Reserved. Dolšak thought it was doomed, while Prakash acknowledged ruefully, “I thought it would pass.”, Not that Dolšak enjoyed being right; 1631’s defeat left them both deflated, she said. The Keep It In The Ground movement, which opposes any new fossil fuel production, firmly established itself with direct action in “Blockadia,” as activists strapped themselves to a drill rig headed to the Arctic, blocked trains and demonstrated in the streets of Seattle and Portland. “2019 is a year we can make a lot of progress on this,” Nick Abraham, a spokesman for the Yes on 1631 campaign, told me. Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox. The celebrations lasted a few minutes. We finished our drinks and parted ways. If people were nervous, it didn’t show. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? What, then, should we take away from the death of 1631? The carbon fee and gas tax account for about $10 billion of the roughly $13.6 billion in fees in the package. Had every project been built, “it would certainly make us one of the top fossil fuel transport hubs anywhere in the world,” said Eric de Place, a programs director at the Sightline Institute, a nonprofit think tank focused on regional sustainability. What you should know about WA Gov. Inexpensive, too! In 2018, voters in Kalama, Washington, elected Mayor Mike Reuter, who promised to block construction of a plant for methanol, a fossil fuel with a heavy pollution fingerprint. Washington Initiative 732, a "tax swap" proposal to levy a tax on carbon emissions and simultaneously reduce the state's sales tax, had appeared on the ballot in the 2016 election, but failed to pass. “We did it,” a young woman standing next to me said. A second wave of results had come in, and the tide had turned. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It's us but for your ears. “It comes out as a family compromise.” What they arrived at was simple: The failure of 1631 was about more than a deep-pocketed oil and gas campaign machine; it spoke to climate action’s broader challenges. Alberta’s anger against the carbon tax is misplaced. This story was funded with reader donations to the High Country News Enterprise Journalism Fund. Golden’s mind was on what would come next, including setting aside the fight for a carbon tax, for now. Those who build new buildings are rarely the ones paying the energy bills, so a tax on emissions is more likely to hit the building’s occupants. By signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. In practice, however, many key emitters are relatively unaffected by a carbon tax. If we have to name 1631’s killer, it might be what geographer Mike Hulme called the “climate of climate change.” Hulme, an expert in climate change theory at the University of Cambridge, argues that our concept of climate is only partly rooted in objective truths about the material world. This op-ed in The Snohomish Times on Jan. 19, 2019 explains what happened with the court ruling and what to expect moving forward. “All aspects of human life are now analyzed or represented in relation to climate: gender, violence, literature, security, architecture, the imagination, football, tourism, spirituality, ethics, and so on,” Hulme wrote. Jay Inslee, seated center, poses for a photo with lawmakers and others after he signed the state operating budget, Tuesday, May 21, 2019… Upstairs, in a dimly lit ballroom, community organizers and other supporters of the ballot measure had already gathered. Despite the work of scientists and researchers, whose models are getting better at explaining the chaotic relationships between climate and weather, the truth is that the destructiveness of a particular storm is hard to link straight to a changing climate—what experts call “the attribution problem.” Smoky summer days in Idaho can seem far removed from a tax, or fee, that will somehow reduce carbon emissions, somehow slow climate change, and somehow decrease wildfires. “People don’t get worried about problems that aren’t happening today or tomorrow,” Dolšak said. What Went Wrong? The climate is too big for us to easily wrap our minds around, and so it proves to be a difficult issue to legislate. In the wake of the election, the couple published half a dozen pieces analyzing the failure that drew on their own discussions. The West Coast offered the quickest way from coal country to China, and so began a wave of proposals for trains to haul the coal and for coastal terminals from Oakland, California, to Bellingham, Washington, to export it. A quirk of state law classified 1631 as a fee, evoking a parking ticket for emitting, rather than a cost to everyday consumers, but most voters identified it as a tax. Voters told her: “The money I pay in taxes, the increase at the gas pump, it will never benefit me.”. New data on greenhouse gas emissions in Washington shows signs of progress in the state’s efforts to cut the carbon pollution that is driving climate change. Still, it wasn’t advertising campaigns or partisanship alone that killed the tax: it got mired in the same murk that has slowed climate action for decades. Since 2013, legislative proposals for either cap-and-trade or carbon taxes have failed three times. However, you must still pay the tax due on your original filing date. The failure of Washington’s carbon tax proved a dim coda to the state’s long fight to control rising temperatures and reverse their effects on its most vulnerable communities. A building standard, for example, might require different windows, different insulation, a different design … and by the time you’re done, it’s hard to disentangle what you did from what you might have done otherwise, and even harder to say how much more money per ton of carbon was effective. At 8:15 p.m., the buzz of conversation spiked, becoming a roar. The package announced Thursday would also raise fees on property development and commercial, electric and private vehicles, as well as taxes on rental cars, bicycles, and auto parts. Supporters of a Washington state ballot initiative that would charge a fee on carbon emissions from fossil fuels rally in October. ... according to state data. All of these things are wrapped together, but the climate is changing, and so must our analysis of it. Given these reminders, now would have seemed a prime time for Initiative 1631. In Washington, even as winter faltered and delivered a meager snowpack, concerns over climate change had been quickly replaced by more immediate worries: a federal shutdown and a volatile stock exchange. Close. Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation. There was no carbon tax or fee included in the governor's slate of proposed legislation that his office said would reduce carbon emissions to 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2035. Dolšak tends to agree: She hypothesized that even cap-and-trade, which often amounts to the same thing as a carbon tax, might have passed in the state, given that it sidesteps the word tax and directly limits emissions. In this way, climate change can boggle the imagination. “It is a moment of great peril but it is also a moment of great promise.” He unveiled a plan he hopes to put before the state Legislature this year, one that encompasses clean fuel standards, tighter building codes and a shift to 100 percent clean energy. The bill will now be heard and voted on by a fiscal committee. “We have anecdotal evidence that money doesn’t lead to electoral success,” Prakash said. In the end, the measure passed in just three places: Seattle’s King County, Port Townsend’s Jefferson County and the county that encompasses the San Juan Islands. Given this, the fight over what to do about rising temperatures epitomizes all our other disagreements over what justice—let alone climate justice—might, and should, look like. People pulled out their phones to refresh elections pages. Opponents to the ballot measure outspent supporters 2-to-1, spending a total of $30 million to defeat it. In the three northeast counties, the percentage of people voting no were: Ferry County = 74.5 percent; Stevens County = 79 percent; Pend Oreille County = 77.24 percent. W hen it comes to energy policy, Washington has one resource that appears infinitely renewable: carbon-tax proposals.. Al Gore proposed a carbon tax back in 1992. Along the beach in Edmonds, Washington, a coal train passes behind Nives Dolšak and Aseem Prakash, professors at the Center for Environmental Politics at the University of Washington. “This is the greatest endeavor of our time,” he told a crowd of reporters at a workspace for energy efficiency innovators in Seattle. Whichever one I’d call, I’d find them together: They have been married for 19 years and often greeted me in unison in a well-worn routine. In short, the difficulty of addressing climate stems from its very power: Its effects are inextricable from the way we have configured our society. In 2017, the state received just over 20 percent of its energy from coal or natural gas, and its only coal power plant is on track to close. Washington Gov. I made my way through the streets, my thoughts scattered, and before I could really think through all I’d just learned, a gust of wind caught me by surprise and nearly slammed me into a building. The initiative promised to pool funds for projects, including new bus lines, land conservation grants, and training to transition fossil fuel workers into other jobs. Combined with a separate new law that sets energy efficiency standards for a range of By Request: Office of Financial Management . Unsurprisingly, the carbon tax found wide support among the state’s tribal nations, some of whom face the obvious possibility of displacement due to rising seas, and in Seattle’s communities of color, where air pollution already causes higher-than-average rates of asthma. A carbon tax failed on the ballot in 2016. An engineer at Volvo isn’t likely to compare her efficiency costs to those of double-paned windows in a new high-rise. For example, Stevenson, the canvasser, was first drawn to climate activism through her interest in reproductive health and justice: “There are areas where people’s children are not growing up healthy because they’re breathing in fumes or drinking fossil fuels in their water,” she said. Although he believes people will embrace climate action eventually, in the short term, he conceded, “I think things are going to get worse before they get better.”, Prakash blamed environmentalists and their approach. And not long after the US midterms, France underwent a major political crisis, brought in part by a fuel tax meant to curb emissions. Bonds add an additional $3.5 billion, bringing the total to just under $17.1 billion. Another ambitious effort to pass a carbon tax in Washington state has faltered as both Gov. The Democratic governor is proposing new taxes to help pay for coronavirus relief, plus an ambitious plan to cap carbon emissions in Washington state. state’s fastest growing source of greenhouse gasses and account for 27 percent of the carbon pollution in Washington. At least as powerful is the fact that climate fundamentally formed human cultures, contributing to our idea of it as static. So even if a majority of Americans believe in climate change, that statistic amounts to very little. Sponsors: Braun, Ranker, Hunt. Nives Dolšak and her husband, Aseem Prakash, are both professors, focused on climate change and its human dimensions, at the University of Washington, in Seattle, who spend their days studying climate policy and pushing environmentalists to reflect on their approach. “Nives and I have not given up on conversation,” Prakash said. It’s a challenge to our moral imagination—and a big one. Washington state on Tuesday rejected a carbon tax ballot initiative that supporters hoped would be the first voter-approved tax on fossil fuel emissions to fight climate change. Actually, the United States already has a carbon tax. People are animals, yes, and political animals at that, forming loyal packs and scrapping over neighborhood HOAs, city councils, Congress and the courts. Over a cup of tea, Golden dissected, and then dissected again, the faults of the tax and the future of climate action. January 23, 2019. Terms of Service apply. “The first lesson is: Don’t lead with your chin.” Harvey, an energy wonk with a cheery, blunt manner, said the state’s climate coalition should have pushed for more immediately achievable ends first, such as fuel efficiency standards modeled on California’s, or tighter building regulations. No capital gains tax currently exists in Washington at the state or local level. Human-caused climate change is turning into a “medical emergency” that could result in death and disease for millions, according to British medical journal, The Lancet. Outside, the winter weather was particularly nasty, with rain that flew sideways and high winds shoving people around the sidewalks. Reimagining it will require a radical overhaul of societal structures, a process she thinks will take longer than an election cycle or two. Yet its failure had seemed improbable. Early on election night, as a drizzly dusk settled over Seattle, I made my way to the Arctic Club, a hotel decorated with explorers’ maps and a fake polar bear—a fitting place to await the results on Washington’s carbon tax initiative. “It had all the structural factors in its favor,” said Dolšak, from the menacing weather that preceded the vote to the overall support for climate action in the state. Those climate hawks who believe that extreme weather events, like wildfires and hurricanes, will inspire climate inactivists are overly optimistic, Prakash said. “If you take a mile-long coal train going through Seattle, it just doesn’t look good,” said de Place. Economists generally support a carbon tax over regulations or building standards, because it costs all emitters fairly, in proportion to their emissions. Washington state lawmakers proposed a measure on Thursday to limit carbon pollution that would be the nation's first if passed. It’s just another thing to worry about, on a heaping plate of worry. However, the issue is still alive in our court system. “We’re trying to break free and make a fundamental shift in our society.”, And the difficulties with that shift run deep in the human psyche. A few campaigners sat hunched over computers in the back corner, but mostly, it seemed, people were there to socialize. Wheat fields and forests burned and towns throughout the region were choked with wildfire smoke. The natural gas industry also began to swell, proposing a dozen separate refineries and terminals with their attendant pipelines and trains in Oregon and Washington. “If a carbon tax cannot pass in good economic times, in a pro-environment state like Washington, then action on climate is far more difficult than it used to seem.” Prakash’s longer view gave him a more hopeful perspective, she said, forecasting what might happen thousands of years from now. Many groups, including the Sierra Club and The Nature Conservancy, did not back an earlier carbon tax that was designed to appeal to more conservative voters. Ted S. Warren/Associated Press. The tax would begin in 2019 and would increase $2 every year after 2021 until capped at $30 per metric ton. Senate leader proposes carbon tax with 15 cent per gallon hike to gasoline Fri., Feb. 22, 2019 A carbon tax proposal in front of the Washington Legislature includes an … A 20-year-old woman with square glasses and a knack for getting people to talk, she spent weeks knocking on doors in the Spokane area, on the far eastern side of the state, along with her husband. Current law. Inslee tried several times, and voters rejected two ballot measures, before Washington took a year off from carbon pricing battles in 2019. Climate change turning into ‘medical emergency,’ experts say. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? ... (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) ... Jan. 24, 2019 at 12:33 a.m. UTC. After all, in the months leading up to the vote, climate change made its mark on much of Washington life. The fight to block fossil fuel infrastructure drew widespread support in Washington and Oregon. In Washington, hydroelectric dams, not fossil fuels, have long provided the state’s energy. In Oregon, voters elected a blue bloc of representatives, including Golden’s brother Jeff in southern Oregon, who promised to block permits for an LNG export terminal at Jordan Cove. The state put a limit on emissions in 2008. “We’re just not on the same timeline as physics.” Climate change is not just an environmental problem or an economic problem, and it can’t be framed that way. Golden thinks the first step is to regain a sense that our collective actions can actually affect the course of climate change. The costs of relocating communities farther inland from the coasts, for example, won’t be recouped from sales of Teslas. The plan would tax carbon emissions generated by transportation fuels and power plants at $20 per metric ton starting in July of 2019. Just a few weeks after the election, the National Climate Assessment confirmed that all that was likely just an ominous portent of things to come: Climate change threatens the region’s infrastructure with landslides, rising seas and aberrant weather, while its most vulnerable communities face deteriorating air and water quality. I stumbled down a flight of stairs looking for somewhere to retreat to, but there was nothing around but bad weather. Mother Jones was founded as a nonprofit in 1976 because we knew corporations and the wealthy wouldn't fund the type of hard-hitting journalism we set out to do. The carbon fee would add 15 cents per gallon, an increase of 21 cents per gallon. If it passes, said Senate Transportation committee chairman Steve Hobbs, Washington residents would most likely see the most expensive gas in the nation. This was the state’s second attempt to tax carbon emissions, and in the months leading up to the vote, an unusually wide swath of Washington society had turned out in support. On the other hand, voters—most of whom aren’t economists—tend to prefer energy standards because they put the costs on those most directly responsible for carbon-emitting systems, the real estate developers and car designers. The solution, then, would seem to be to convince people they’ll be just as well off before a carbon tax as after—and to match fossil fuel interests’ spending dollar for dollar. The rural communities of Hoquiam and Aberdeen unanimously banned new crude oil storage facilities in their towns. ” ‘Everything’ is not a choice.”, In the weeks after the death of 1631, climate activists took little time to grieve, refusing to declare defeat. Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights. Supporting Washington's clean energy economy and transitioning to a clean, affordable, and reliable energy future. The carbon fee would add 15 cents per gallon, an increase of 21 cents per gallon. In addition to concerns about air pollution and the safety of coal trains and gas pipelines, the proposals threatened the region’s sense that it was a leader on climate change. In the fall, many of the state’s largest salmon and steelhead fisheries closed, from the Yakima to the Columbia River, thanks to warming rivers and oceans. A coalition of environmental groups, labor unions, racial and economic justice advocates, health workers and leaders from nearly two dozen tribal nations had designed the tax proposal, and their supporters, in a mix of work-wear, fleece and the occasional suit, filled the airless room. But when people need to choose between their day-to-day concerns and a future pot of money for projects they can’t imagine, the day-to-day wins. 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