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Washington Legislature charts ‘new beginning’ in climate change fight
As the dust settles in Olympia, the state has finally embraced cap and trade, electric cars and environmental justice.
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InvestigateWest / May 3, 2021
Emissions from the Marathon Oil refinery in Anacortes mix with a blanket of wildfire smoke in September 2020. Washington state’s new environmental law requires industrial polluters to buy pollution credits from the state in a cap-and-trade market and dedicates tens of millions of dollars for cleanup in the most polluted areas of the state. (Dan DeLong/InvestigateWest)
Lawmakers in Olympia have bound Washington state’s fortunes literally to the fight against climate change with a legislative blitz, enacting a “historic” suite of climate protections.
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As the dust settles in Olympia, the state finally has embraced cap and trade, electric cars and environmental justice.
Lawmakers in Olympia have bound Washington state’s fortunes literally to the fight against climate change with a legislative blitz, enacting a “historic” suite of climate protections.
Before adjourning April 25, Democrats passed a pair of sweeping restrictions on greenhouse gas pollution intended to aggressively cut Washington’s carbon footprint while driving billions of dollars into state coffers and toward clean energy.
The Climate Commitment Act will require industrial polluters to buy pollution credits from the state in a cap-and-trade market system similar to one operating in California. The bill stipulates that tens of millions of dollars collected each year should be used to underwrite cleanup in the most-polluted areas of the state, clearing t