Climate is on the agenda this year. A carbon tax should be too. March 3, 2021

Kitsap Sun

Drs Kristina Soman-Faulkner and Michael Soman are Kitsap residents and active in Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility. They strongly endorse an equitably structured carbon pricing system and moving as quickly as possible to sustainable energy sources to avoid the most devastating public health impacts of the climate crisis.

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