Members of the Regional Climate Protection Authority are going back to the drawing board to determine how best to fund carbon reduction and climate mitigation after a recent poll showed insufficient support for a tax measure they had hoped to put on the ballot next year.
More than half of the 800 people polled supported either a quarter-cent sales tax or a $52-a-year parcel tax to generate money to address the local impacts of climate change, expand renewable energy use and reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
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