Ewire: Pacific Northwest states struggle on major GHG policies

Democrats in the Pacific Northwest are struggling to advance major policies to cut greenhouse gases, with a court ruling significantly curtailing a Washington state regulation imposing a GHG cap on various sectors while Oregon lawmakers appear to be in for a tough fight to enact an economy-wide cap-and-trade program. The court ruling, issued Jan. 16 by the Washington Supreme Court, upheld only a limited portion of Gov. Jay Inslee’s (D) Clean Air Rule that had imposed an emissions limit on...