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Cap-and-Invest (Washington State)
Cap-and-Invest, is a program run by the Washington state government to fund climate change policy through a carbon emissions trading system, commonly known as cap and trade. Program design The Cap-and-Invest program was created by the Climate Commitment Act in 2021. Auctions The program uses sealed-bid auctions, whereby the price that each participant bids is unknown to other participants. After bidding is closed, participants are allocated the number of allowances that they bid for, in order of highest price first, until all allowances have been accounted for. However, the price that all the successful participants actually pay (the settlement price) is the lowest successful bid price. Any participant who bid a price lower than the final price, will not receive any allowances at auction, and will instead have to purchase them on the secondary market. The Department of Ecology also establishes price floors and ceilings for allowances, increasing over time and adjusted for i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carbon Emission Trading
Carbon emission trading (also called carbon market, emission trading scheme (ETS) or cap and trade) is a type of emissions trading scheme designed for carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs). A form of carbon pricing, its purpose is to limit climate change by creating a market with limited allowances for emissions. Carbon emissions trading is a common method that countries use to attempt to meet their pledges under the Paris Agreement, with schemes operational in China, the European Union, and other countries. Emissions trading sets a quantitative total limit on the emissions produced by all participating emitters, which correspondingly determines the prices of emissions. Under emission trading, a polluter having more emissions than their quota has to purchase the right to emit more from emitters with fewer emissions. This can reduce the competitiveness of fossil fuels, which are the main driver of climate change. Instead, carbon emissions trading may acceler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington State Ferries
Washington State Ferries (WSF) is a public ferry system in the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. It is a division of the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) and operates 10 routes serving 20 terminals within Puget Sound and in the San Juan Islands. The routes are designated as part of the State highways in Washington, state highway system. WSF maintains a fleet of 21 vessels that are able to carry passengers and vehicles. The ferry system carried a total of 18.66 million riders in 2023—9.69 million passengers and 8.97 million vehicles. WSF is the largest ferry system in the United States and the second-largest vehicular ferry system in the world behind BC Ferries. The state ferries carried an average of per weekday in . History The ferry system has its origins in the "Puget Sound mosquito fleet, mosquito fleet", a collection of small steamer lines serving the Puget Sound area during the later part of the nineteenth century and ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington (state) Law
Washington most commonly refers to: * George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States * Washington (state), a state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on Washington, D.C. Washington may also refer to: Places England * Washington Old Hall, ancestral home of the family of George Washington * Washington, Tyne and Wear, a town in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough * Washington, West Sussex, a village and civil parish Greenland * Cape Washington, Greenland * Washington Land Philippines *New Washington, Aklan, a municipality *Washington, a barangay in Catarman, Northern Samar *Washington, a barangay in Escalante, Negros Occidental *Washington, a barangay in San Jacinto, Masbate *Washington, a barangay in Surigao City United States * Fort Washington (disambiguat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spokane, Washington
Spokane ( ) is the most populous city in eastern Washington and the county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States. It lies along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains, and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, south of the Canada–United States border, Canadian border, west of the Washington–Idaho border, and east of Seattle, along Interstate 90 in Washington, Interstate 90. Spokane is the economic and cultural center of the Spokane metropolitan area, the Spokane–Coeur d'Alene combined statistical area, and the Inland Northwest. It is known as the birthplace of Father's Day (United States), Father's Day, and locally by the nickname of "Lilac City". Officially, Spokane goes by the nickname of ''Hooptown USA'', due to Spokane's annual hosting of the Spokane Hoopfest, the world's largest basketball tournament. The city and the wider Inland Northwest area are served by Spokane International Airport, west of Downtown Spokane, which is located near a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaiser Aluminum
Kaiser Aluminum Corporation is an American aluminum producer. It is a spinoff from Kaiser Aluminum and Chemicals Corporation, which came to be when common stock was offered in Permanente Metals Corporation and Permanente Metals Corporation's name was changed to Kaiser Aluminum and Chemicals Corporation. History Founded in 1946, Henry J. Kaiser, Henry J. Kaiser's corporation entered the aluminum business by leasing, then purchasing three government-owned aluminum facilities in Washington (state), Washington state. These were the primary reduction plants at Mead, Washington, Mead and Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma, the rolling mill at Trentwood, Washington, Trentwood and also an alumina refinery at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Kaiser benefited at that early juncture from some preferential treatment, the government found it more important to establish a third competitor in the aluminum industry besides Alcoa and Reynolds Metals Company, Reynolds than to accept the highest bid (by Reynol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guemes Island Ferry
The Guemes Island ferry, the ''M/V Guemes'', carries passengers and vehicles across Guemes Channel between Anacortes, Washington and Guemes Island. The ferry is operated by the Skagit County Public Works Department's Ferry Division. History The original mariners in these waters were the Coast Salish, who traveled in fine, hand-carved cedar canoes. Guemes Island is within the historical territory of the Samish Indian Nation. A Samish village, ''Sxwalímet'', existed on the site of what is now the Guemes Island Ferry Terminal until the first decade of the 1900s. Scheduled ferry service between Anacortes and Guemes Island dates to 1890. According to a published timeline produced by the Anacortes Museum: * 1890-1902: W.C. Pyle establishes the first private ferry service between Anacortes and Guemes Island: the steamer ''Iola,'' Capt. M.B. Miller. A launch, the ''Glide,'' also provides service. The U.S. Mail Steamer ''Buckeye,'' Capt. A. Newhall, includes Guemes Island on its Frid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Insulated Windows
Insulating glass (IG) consists of two or more glass Paned window (architecture), window panes separated by a space to reduce heat transfer across a part of the building envelope. A window with insulating glass is commonly known as double glazing or a double-paned window, triple glazing or a triple-paned window, or quadruple glazing or a quadruple-paned window, depending upon how many panes of glass are used in its construction. Insulating glass units (IGUs) are typically manufactured with glass in thicknesses from . Thicker glass is used in special applications. Laminated or tempered glass may also be used as part of the construction. Most units are produced with the same thickness of glass on both panes but special applications such as acoustic attenuation or security may require different thicknesses of glass to be incorporated in a unit. The space in between the panes provides the bulk of the insulation effect. It can be filled with air, but argon is often used as it gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heat Pump
A heat pump is a device that uses electricity to transfer heat from a colder place to a warmer place. Specifically, the heat pump transfers thermal energy using a heat pump and refrigeration cycle, cooling the cool space and warming the warm space. In winter a heat pump can move heat from the cool outdoors to warm a house; the pump may also be designed to move heat from the house to the warmer outdoors in summer. As they transfer heat rather than generating heat, they are more energy-efficient than heating by gas boiler. A gaseous refrigerant is compressed so its pressure and temperature rise. When operating as a heater in cold weather, the warmed gas flows to a heat exchanger in the indoor space where some of its thermal energy is transferred to that indoor space, causing the gas to condense into a liquid. The liquified refrigerant flows to a heat exchanger in the outdoor space where the pressure falls, the liquid evaporates and the temperature of the gas falls. It is no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electric Bicycle
An electric bicycle, e-bike, electrically assisted pedal cycle, or electrically power assisted cycle is a bicycle with an integrated electric motor used to assist propulsion. Many kinds of e-bikes are available worldwide, but they generally fall into two broad categories: bikes that assist the rider's pedal-power (i.e. pedelecs) and bikes that add a throttle, integrating moped-style functionality. Both retain the ability to be Bicycle pedal, pedaled by the rider and are therefore not electric motorcycles. E-bikes use Rechargeable battery, rechargeable batteries and typically are motor-powered up to . High-powered varieties can often travel up to or more than . Depending on local laws, many e-bikes (e.g., ''pedelecs'') are legally classified as bicycles rather than mopeds or motorcycles. This exempts them from the more stringent laws regarding the certification and operation of more powerful two-wheelers which are often classed as electric motorcycles, such as licensing and mand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amtrak Cascades
The Amtrak ''Cascades'' is a passenger train route in the Pacific Northwest, operated by Amtrak in partnership with the U.S. states of Washington (state), Washington and Oregon. It is named after the Cascade Range, Cascade mountain range that the route parallels. The corridor runs from Vancouver, British Columbia, through Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, Portland, Oregon, to Eugene, Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. , seven round trips operate along the corridor each day: one Vancouver–Seattle, one Vancouver–Seattle–Portland, three Seattle–Portland, and two Seattle–Portland–Eugene. No train travels the entire length of the corridor. For trains that do not travel directly to Vancouver or Eugene, connections are available on Amtrak Thruway bus services. Additionally, Amtrak Thruway services offer connections to other destinations in British Columbia, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington not on the rail corridor. In the fiscal year 2017, ''Cascades'' was Amtrak's eighth-bus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sounder Commuter Rail
Sounder is a commuter rail system that serves the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington. Managed by Sound Transit, it uses of tracks, primarily owned by operator BNSF Railway, and runs with equipment maintained by Amtrak. Sounder is split into two lines that intersect at King Street Station in Seattle: the NLine to Everett and the SLine to Tacoma and Lakewood. Trains typically operate during peak periods, with morning trips to Seattle and afternoon trips to outlying suburbs. Limited mid-day service is offered on the SLine, and both lines offer special weekend trips for sporting events and other major events. Sounder has 12 stations that connect with Link light rail as well as local and regional bus systems. Most also provide park-and-ride facilities, bicycle lockers, and other amenities. Fares are paid using ORCA cards, paper tickets, and mobile ticketing apps, and validated through proof-of-payment checks. In 2024, the system carried a total ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington Climate Commitment Act
The Climate Commitment Act is a law enacted by the Washington state legislature and signed by Governor Jay Inslee in 2021. Cap and invest program The Climate Commitment Act is implemented through the Cap-and-Invest program which was launched in 2023. Initiative 2117 In the 2024 general election, ballot initiative 2117 which sought to repeal the Climate Commitment Act was placed on the ballot. A poll in May 2024 of 403 registered voters showed 41% support repealing while 31% oppose with a +/- 5% margin of error. Over $8.5 million and $5 million were raised in support and opposition of the initiative, respectively. Initiative 2117 is part of a group of ballot initiatives lead by conservative leaders, including businessman Brian Heywood, who criticized the CCA for targeting gasoline which has inelastic demand, meaning that people still have to buy it even when the price goes up. He was quoted as describing the policy as "like Marie Antoinette — let them drive Teslas." The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
