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Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. Hey, good morning. It's Paige Browning. It's Tuesday. This is Seattle now. Washington's

carbon market has raised more than $2.5 billion so far, money which goes toward fighting climate change.

Washington's big polluters have all paid up except for one.

We'll talk with Seattle Times climate change reporter Conrad Swanson in a few minutes, but first let's get you caught up.

Music But first, let's get you caught up. After a few dry days, an atmospheric river is settling into the region today.

According to the National Weather Service, it'll bring significant rain to the region.

Seattle could get up to two inches over the next few days,

and in the mountains, the western slopes of the Cascades could get up to five new inches of

snow today. Speaking of snow, skiers, and snowboarders, your snow dances worked. The summit at

Snoqualmie opens for the season today. Today is just for

passholders there and then open to everyone starting Wednesday. As with any early conditions,

limited chairs are running this week. And while the summit got more than a foot of snow this past

weekend, coverage is thin and you're going to see tree tops and rock hazards. Enjoy that first chair.

And if you're liking our show and the local conversations you hear on Seattle Now every day,

we invite you to donate to support the show. Our home station, KUOW Public Radio, is holding

its winter fundraising drive right now.

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