Hoping to generate revenue for a transportation funding package, lawmakers revisit a concept that caused two previous Republican walkouts.
BY NIGEL JAQUISS
Oregon Journalism Project
Republican lawmakers walked out of the Capitol in 2019 and 2020 because of their vehement opposition to proposed carbon emissions reduction legislation referred to as “cap and trade.”
Those walkouts came after years of wrangling over the policy, which came in a series of iterations but would have used financial…