The last time Washington considered putting a price on carbon was a lonely time for Heidi Cody.
Cody, a Vancouver climate change activist, recalled how in 2016 she was almost always the only volunteer in the area collecting signatures for Initiative 732, a ballot initiative that would’ve made Washington the first state to levy a tax on carbon emissions but was voted down by 60 percent of voters (including by 65 percent in Clark County).
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