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When Climate Campaigners Miss the Point

Washington could become the first state to adopt a carbon tax. Standing in the way: environmentalists.

Not productive.

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Voters in Washington state will be asked next month whether they want to adopt the nation's first carbon tax -- a powerful way to curb greenhouse-gas emissions. You'd think environmental groups would be doing everything they can to back that idea. You'd be wrong.

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