Jay Inslee, BP and Washington’s Climate Story

Climate One

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🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In Washington State, voters defeated initiatives to put a price on carbon ― twice. Governor Jay Inslee himself then lost his personal bid for the White House. Yet his bold ideas have proven staying power. The state legislature recently passed a carbon cap and invest bill that will reduce economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions 95 percent by 2050. “We’ve got to wake up every morning figuring out ‘how can I disrupt the status quo.’ Because the status quo is deadly, it’s fatal, it will destroy economies and the biology that we exist on,” Inlsee says. Even big oil, which spent tens of missions to defeat the 2018 carbon pricing proposal, seems to be changing its tune, with BP now supporting a price on carbon. How might Washington State be a bellwether for Washington DC? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.5	This is Climate 1. I'm Greg Dalton. This year, Washington became the second state to place a price on
0:36.9	carbon across most of its economy.
0:39.5	Governor Jay Inslee says there's no time to waste.
0:42.4	We got to wake up every morning figuring out how can I disrupt the status quo.
0:46.3	Because the status quo is deadly, it's fatal.
0:48.5	It will destroy our economies and the biology that we exist on.
0:51.6	The cap and invest bill made it through the legislature with surprise
0:54.7	support from oil company BP. If we do the same thing today, 40 years from now, just make oil and
1:01.6	natural gas products and ship them around the world, our company is not going to be successful in 20
1:07.0	years, 30 years, 40 years. So how do we balance protecting the economy and the environment as
1:12.0	climate disruption continues? Clean water is good for the economy too. Healthy orcas and healthy
1:17.7	salmon and robust tribal fisheries, you know, helps everybody out. Has Washington State set a new
1:25.2	bar for robust and just climate policy?
1:28.5	Climate One's empowering conversations connect all aspects of the climate emergency.
1:33.9	Washington has set in motion a price on carbon pollution across a huge swath of its economy,
1:39.0	but it didn't get there easily.
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