News accounts of the frightful consequences of climate change are finally being offset by political progress on global warming.
Gov. Christine Gregoire has presented legislators in Olympia with the building blocks for a regional system to roll back greenhouse-gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Washington is part of the Western Climate Initiative, through which several states and Canadian provinces will eventually set a cap on emissions and create an exchange system that allows credits to be traded as business, industry and government work to achieve emission reductions.
The legislation seeks to set emission thresholds that identify who needs to report, establish the protocols that measure emissions, and standardize reporting requirements and procedures — everyone talking the same lang-uage.
An estimated 100 to 150 emitters would be affected by a threshold of 10,000 metric tons of annual greenhouse-gas emissions. Maybe the refinery at Cherry Point comes to mind, but how about the University of Washington's steam plant and Sacred Heart Medical Center?
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