State lawmakers from Southwest Washington balked at Gov. Jay Inslee’s partial veto on a pair of carbon-curbing bills Monday, a move that legislators on both sides of the aisle are calling an overreach of the governor’s powers.
Inslee signed two ambitious pieces of climate legislation this week: a bill that empowers the state’s Department of Ecology to implement a carbon cap-and-trade program and a bill establishing a low-carbon fuel standard.
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