Afternoon Press Snacks 10.10.16

Madeline Rainwater  |   October 10, 2016

For today’s Columbus Day snacks, news on an unprecedented direct carbon tax, an update on legislative funding fights ahead of the lame duck session, and lastly, a story of how the private sector fought back against strangling regulation and won!

  • Washington State voters to decide the fate of the nation’s first carbon tax, AP
  • There could be a new fight between the House and Senate on the water bill over a $1 billion Flint aid discrepancy, The Hill
  • From the Daily Signal, a story on how a Tennessee startup won the fight against a state regulatory board