Voters rejected most ballot measures aimed at curbing climate change
View on The Washington Post website"Richard Newell, president of the non-partisan think tank, Resources for the Future, drew a different conclusion.
'The complexities and politics of the clean energy transition are best navigated through a legislative process, which has been the basis for virtually all significant state level climate and renewable energy policy,' Newell said in an email. 'I would not take this as a repudiation of public desire to address climate change, including through carbon pricing or clean energy standards, but rather that the details and who is engaged in the policy formulation matter, a lot. That’s tough to do through a ballot initiative.'”
