Special Series
Seattle's Great Viaduct Debate
In a Series
Urban Highway Blogging
Over at Smart Growth America's blog, Cary Moon -- one of my all-time favorite gadflies -- is doing some writing about Seattle's ongoing viaduct saga. Go check it out.
Scoping Out Cap and Trade
Maybe you've noticed that Clark and I haven't been blogging as frequently of late. It's mainly because we're spending a lot of our time working out the technical details of cap and trade policy, especially as it applies to the Western Climate Initiative (WCI).
I'd hate to leave you with the impression that we're not up to something. So, for our geekier readership, I give you: Sightline's comments on the scope of WCI's cap and trade program. ("Scope" refers to the range of emissions that are covered by the cap, whether it will include coal electricity, natural gas, transportation fuels, landfill methane, industrial emissions, or what have you.) We argue that WCI should include all the sources of emissions that are technically feasible to cover -- and especially transportation fuels, the single largest source of emissions in the region.
In the coming months we'll post more of our wonky stuff here, just in case folks are interested.
Hey, I'm On The Radio
I'll be on KUOW's The Conversation this afternoon at 1:00. The topic is housing prices, regulation, and the study that came out yesterday. It's a shorter version of this, this, and this.
It's up on the website now, in case anyone wants to hear me talk really, really fast about supply and demand. I don't come on until about minute 50.
