/PRNewswire/ Today Governor Jay Inslee signed the Climate Commitment Act (CCA), SB 5126, into law positioning Washington State as a national climate leader.
BP’s Suspicious Support for a Carbon Market in Washington State
The oil giant owns a carbon sequestration company that could benefit from the law, allowing BP to play both sides of the emissions ledger.
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BP CEO Bernard Looney, at a 2020 event where he declared the oil company’s intentions to achieve “net-zero” carbon emissions by 2050
In early April, the state of Washington managed to do what once seemed impossible: successfully pass a bill establishing carbon pricing. It did so with the backing of oil giant BP, which has a lot riding on a particular piece of it: carbon offsets.
Clean Fuel Washington Celebrates Legislature’s Final Passage of HB 1091, A Clean Fuel Standard No longer the missing link, Washington state completes the “Clean Fuel Coast” with low carbon fuel standards from Mexico though British Columbia
April 25, 2021 21:18 ET | Source: Clean Fuel Washington Clean Fuel Washington
OLYMPIA, Wash., April 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)
Clean Fuel Washington, an organization fighting to reduce pollution, address climate change and help grow our state’s economy celebrated the historic legislative victory to fight climate change with the passage today of HB 1091. The Clean Fuel Standard now goes to Governor Jay Inslee’s desk for signature.
“Today Washington state choose to become a global climate leader by reducing fossil transportation fuels, which are the number one cause of climate pollution in our state,” said Tim Zenk, organizer of Clean Fuel Washington. “The citizens of Washington, i
In Washington state, HB 1091. the Clean Fuel Standard has been passed by the legislature and now heads to Governor Jay Inslee’s desk for signature; it is a significant win for the Governor’s renewables agenda and for the clean fuels movement.
From San Diego to the gateway to the Klondike, a clean curtain has descended across the gateway to the Pacific. Low-carbon fuel standards are now in place in California, Oregon, British Columbia and, shortly, in Washington state creating a fortress of renewability, into which many of the Great cities of the Petroleum Age have taken themselves Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, Oakland, Portland, Vancouver. The stakeholder group Clean Fuel Washington has dubbed the region “The Clean Fuel Coast”.
Historic Climate Bill Passes Washington State Legislature
State on Path to Becoming Net Zero Carbon by 2050
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SEATTLE, April 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Climate Commitment Act (CCA), SB 5126, was passed by the Washington State Legislature today, the first climate legislation in the country to pave the way to net zero carbon emissions by the year 2050. The historic and carefully crafted cap-and-invest legislation is now on its way to Governor Jay Inslee to be signed into law.
Bill Sponsor Senator Reuven Carlyle and House Environment Committee Chair Representative Joe Fitzgibbon worked closely with members of both houses to ensure the legislation would put both a decreasing cap on carbon and on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while making significant investments in new infrastructure, transit, agriculture, forestry and shipbuilding projects. The bill puts a hard cap on carbon emissions and lowers that cap year by year.