Kudos and gratitude to The Herald’s environment reporter, Zachariah Bryan, for his inaugural Sept. 2 newsletter on an array of important local climate and environment topics, including the deaths of 134 Washingtonians due to August’s heat-related causes. Climatologists attribute many of these worsening record-setting disasters to our failure to gain control of man-made climate change. A growing number of other nations have already successfully put a price on carbon, including the European Emissions Trading System, in place since 2008. However, our U.S. Congress has overlooked this most impactful carbon pricing strategy in the current notions of their reconciliation package, which will proceed toward further finalization in just several days. This is the time for each of us to ask our respective three members of Congress to “put a price on carbon in the reconciliation package.” And it’s easy and quick to do just that in under five minutes by clicking CCLUSA.org/senate and CCLUSA.org/house.

Source: The Herald September 08, 2021 08:37 UTC