Welcome back.

Joining us now is Todd Myers.

We've talked to Todd before.

He's with a think tank policy institute in Washington State.

He's vice president for research at the Washington Policy Center.

And this is in Washington State.

Thank you for joining us, sir.

Yeah, it's always nice to chat with you.

Great to have you on.

I saw your press release about what is happening in Washington State with CO2 emissions.

Tell us a little bit about what is happening there in terms of their emissions, actually going up, and I don't think that everything is melting there in in terms of their emissions actually going up and I don't think that

everything is melting there in Washington yet, is it?

Actually stilling outside my window right now, so.

Even though the CO2 emissions went up.

So tell us what's happening in Washington, Washington State with their measuring of emissions.

They've gone up over a 10-year period, I guess, a nine-year period, 2012 to 2021.

So for those not in Washington State are probably wondering why do I care about Washington State's CO2 emissions.

And the answer is that Washington and the

West Coast has seen itself as a leader on climate change, you know, say, oh, here are the policies

that we need to implement to reduce the risk from CO2 emissions and climate change. Our governor,

Governor Inslee, actually ran for president, albeit briefly,

in 2019, on the platform of addressing climate change. And his whole argument was that he was

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