Climate

• GOAL: reduce GHG in the state 95% by 2050
• WHO/WHAT:
• targets the state's biggest emitters.
• 100 companies: like natural gas plants, petroleum plants, major industrial processes, UW (natural gas boiler)
• have to reduce emissions overtime by either reducing their emissions or energy in creating their produce or they have to go the market and buy allowances
• Cap & Invest
• The revenue generated has to be invested in reducing climate pollution
• 35% must go to overburdened communities
• requires ecology to address health, social & environmental inequities from pollution
• 10% of the revenues go to projects supported by tribes
• Auctions:
• The next auction is May 31st
• The first auction was in February - it generated $300million in revenue
• thus the legislature allocated $2B for the 2023-25 budget

• 3
• Capital
• Operating
• Transportation

• also known as the healthy environment for all.
• GOAL: eliminate enviro + health disparities among communities of color & low income households. 

• creates a coordinated state agency approach among 7 agencies. 
• -puts enviro justice into agency strategic plans
• -develop community engagement plans and tribal consultation frameworks.
• -invest in those with greatest burdens
• -40% of expenditures is required to go to overburdened communities. 
• -creates an enviro justice council

• CCA
• reduces GHG in the state 95% by 2050.

CETA 100% clean energy

ZEV mandate. No new light duty gas vehicles.

Clean fuel standard. Carbon intensity of fuel must be 20% below 2017 levels

• New clean buildings standards.
• cut energy consumption in new buildings by 70% compared to 2006 levels.

• IRA
• expect to reduce emissions by 40%.

Transportation. 39%

rose by almost 7% from 2018

102.1 metric tons

• Heating or buildings
• 25%

• electricity generation
• 21%

• Other: ag, trash, cement, ect
• 14%

halts the sale of new gas light duty vehicles by 2035.

california heavy duty vehicle incentive program

• -WA cant give money
• -except to the poor and in-firmed
• -so give tax breaks

• uses an electric motor
• creates own fuel
• hydrogen - faster fuel, longer range
• more appropriate for long haul vehicles

sponsored by Sen. Marko Liias (D – Everett) and Rep. Jake Fey (D – Tacoma), the respective chairs of the Senate and House transportation committees, invests $16.9 billion over 16 years in major projects throughout the state. 



Notable investments include: $5.4 billion toward carbon reduction and multimodal expansion. $3 billion for maintenance and preservation.  $3 billion for public transportation.  Free fares for passengers 18 and younger on all public transportation. $2.4 billion to fund fish passage barrier removals.  $1.3 billion in active transportation, including Safe Routes to School and school-based bike programs. $1 billion to fund Washington’s portion of an I-5 replacement bridge across the Columbia River.  $836 million to build four new hybrid-electric ferries. $150 million towards ultra-high-speed rail. $50 million for walking and biking infrastructure in underinvested communities, and more.

• $120M
• $20M for early action grants for infrastructure
• $100M is unalloted till the committee does the strategy - NOTED not an agency.

1181 – Climate in GMA, Rep. Duerr

• update the Growth Management Act (GMA) to establish a new ‘climate change and resiliency’ goal. The legislation would also increase housing capacity within urban growth areas, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce pollution in historically impacted communities, and address adverse impacts to cities and counties due to extreme weather events.
• Funding in the legislation would support cities and counties across the state with the resources and technical assistance necessary to comply with the new requirements.

• Sen. Nguyễn
• changes transmission planning from a 10-year to a 20-year timeline.
• It would also require transmission planners to consider renewable energy projects to ensure Washington increases its capacity to interconnect clean energy projects in future years.

Rep. Fitzgibbon

• -would set up a formal process for “least conflict siting” which would help identify the least controversial places to build – and avoid common issues with renewable developments.
• -This sort of process could help increase the pace and scale of renewable development, while taking into account concerns from rural and tribal communities
• And it would create an application process for clean energy projects of “statewide significance.” If not currently going through the state agency Energy Facility Siting Evaluation Council process, renewable energy developers could apply for an expedited approval process.
• -In addition, the state Department of Commerce would have to study how energy projects affect rural communities and find ways to more equitably alleviate burdens to rural areas, especially east of the Cascade Mountains, where many renewable energy projects will be built

Rep. Slatter

• establishing the Washington Climate Corps Network, an equity centered bill in partnership with the Governor’s Office.
• The legislation will connect and expand climate-related service opportunities and create a workforce advisory committee tasked with developing recommendations on how to support the expansion of clean energy jobs and transition workers to this growing industry.
• “Communities of color and low-income individuals are most impacted by climate change” said. Rep. Slatter. “The goal of this bill is to turn the tide on the climate crisis while also extending service opportunities to diverse communities, young adults, veterans, and our diverse workforce. Transitioning into a clean energy economy requires a comprehensive approach. A large part of that is developing the highly skilled workforce to build and maintain emerging clean technology.”

Sen. Billig

• commercial airplanes and large business jets contribute 10% of U.S. transportation emissions
• would encourage the purchase and manufacture of aviation biofuels through tax incentives
• These fuels are made from petroleum and blended with sources such as wood mill waste, algae, corn grain, landfill gases and other sources.

• Rep. Doglio
• -Affected market customers of consumer-owned utilities, as well as IOUs, must comply with the greenhouse gas neutral standard and the 100 percent clean electricity standard under CETA.

Rep. Hackney

• allows public transit agencies to produce and distribute green electrolytic hydrogen and renewable hydrogen.
• Green electrolytic hydrogen is produced through electrolysis and comes from renewable sources such as wind or water.
• Public transportation agencies can sell green electric hydrogen and renewable hydrogen to facilities that distribute, store or dispense these types of hydrogen for transportation fuel under the bill. The bill has passed the Legislature and has been delivered to the governor.

• -Requires fuel suppliers to gradually reduce the carbon intensity of transportation fuels to 20% below 2017 levels by 2034
• -a fuel producer can change the efficiency at the plant
• -substitute crude oil for a biologic hydrocarbon
• -or go to the market and buy a credit from someone who produces clean energy
• -incentivizes production and distribution of alternative fuels
• -ex a bio methane, digest has a lot of credits to sell to BP, by BP buying them it helps grow their biz.

• halt the sale of new gas light duty vehicles by 2035 (make electric).
• -in WA 17% of new passenger vehicles are electric
• -0% for trucks
• -10% of vehicles in WA are trucks and are responsible for 30% of emissions
• -thus a budget proviso of CCA fund to do tax exemptions. $120M

Developed by Governor Jay Inslee, the Clean Energy Fund supports the development, demonstration and deployment of clean energy technologies. The CleanTech Alliance worked in partnership with the Washington State Department of Commerce to encourage support of the first Clean Energy Fund in 2013 and we’ve been involved in every funding cycle since.

• The CEF continues to prove its worth by creating jobs, improving energy efficiency, and supporting innovations.  Over the years, more than $144 million has been authorized for capital programs that support
• grid modernization,
• solar energy,
• research & development
• grants to support lending,
• electrification of transportation.

• - leveraging WAs natural resources could reduce GHG emission by up to 9%
• -store carbon in old trees
• -DNR, compete i carbon
• -allow the state to save up to 2,00 acres of older state forests and buy up younger forests for timber.

• an important policy tool for managing and reducing the increasing amount of consumer waste from products, packaging and printing paper. As the term suggests, the concept of EPR is to make product manufacturers and distributors (i.e., producers) responsible for these products and materials at the end of life. For retailers, this comes into play when they have private brands. In addition, when a producer doesn’t operate in a jurisdiction, the responsibility falls to the importer, which can also be the retailer. This responsibility is intended to incentivize industry to prevent waste at the source, promote more circular design and establish public-private partnerships to help address waste program challenges by imbedding the cost of end-of-life handling into the upfront cost of the item. Typically, EPR laws require product manufacturers and distributors to develop a producer responsibility organization (PRO) that manages fees paid by producers to help with the take-back of products, educate consumers on their responsibilities and is responsible for meeting EPR targets and goals. Fee structures can vary based on the EPR program, but may come in the form of:
• A flat fee, meaning a fixed charge applied to all forms of packaging regardless of their attributes.
• An eco-modulated fee, meaning fees would be lower for packaging with positive environmental attributes (e.g.; recycled content and/or higher recyclability) and higher for packaging with negative environmental attributes (e.g.; low recyclability and/or recycling rates).
• A fee based on market infrastructure, where fees would be determined by a weight-based (cents per pound), per-material methodology based on the real collection and processing cost of respective materials to the jurisdiction’s recycling system.

• Requires Ecology to coordinate a state response to climate resilience related federal funding opportunities.
• Requires the Department of Ecology (Ecology) to update the Integrated
• Climate Change Response Strategy (Strategy) by July 2024, and every
• four years thereafter, and report on implementation and
• recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature.

Nuclear has the highest capacity factor of any other energy source—producing reliable, carbon-free power more than 92% of the time in 2021. That’s nearly twice as reliable as a coal (49.3%) or natural gas (54.4%) plant and almost 3 times more often than wind (34.6%) and solar (24.6%) plants. 

Capacity is the amount of electricity a generator can produce when it’s running at full blast. This maximum amount of power is typically measured in megawatts (MW) or kilowatts and helps utilities project just how big of an electricity load a generator can handle.

• -diesel when combusts put out particles that cause cancer
• -areas surrounding are typically low income
• -more shore-power, required to use when available, not many ports have very much
• -tugboats
• -drayage drivers
• -cargo handling

• -building out for passenger vehicles too expensive 
• -build for hard to decarbonize industries like, industrial, cement (where you need a lot of heat, long haul, shipping)
• -toyota disagrees

• -could be reversed 
• -need show implementation working 
• -costs more to WA families at the pump
• -how are maritime and ag fuels exempt
• -thats why we need to move people to electric: pathways for low income folks to go electric,  cheaper long term with sustainable energy.
• -get off $4 a gallon

• - use our electricity more efficiency
• - goldendale hydropump storage

• - 2 major sources are electricity and natural gas
• -since we are decarbonizing our grid going electric makes them more efficent and less carbon intensive
• -effiency means stuff like heat pumps, LED lights and changing the constuction codes, insulation

• - buildings over 20,000 sq feet
• -must hit an efficiency standard

• -move waste heat around to use more
• -District energy systems are characterized by one or more central plants producing hot water, steam, and/or chilled water, which then flows through a network of insulated pipes to provide hot water, space heating, and/or air condi- tioning for nearby buildings.
• -denmark does a good job, not an economy wide solution, need urban density

• -ICAP development of policy AND  of tangible programs. Crafting something that all the stakeholders (ICAP clusters, legislators, the agency would support. 
• -developing messaging, making changes and got it into the budget. I call that "active" policy development. It wasn't a proviso, but it became a budget item.

• -We were successful enough to get a proviso, and if I stay in my current role I will key and critical member part
• -I deep passion for policy and implementation, once gov has inked it, the true success of a policy has to do with implementation
• Round table
• Stake holder
• Making sure peoples voices are at the table
• Commerce is one of the largest

• -those who are most overburdened by the problem play a central role in coming up with the solution
• -Clusters are all about having industry come up with the solutions for their industry
• -TA landscape report – name a specific org

• -Example of time at commerce where something wasn’t working and you helped fixed it. 
• -All policy dev is stakeholdership
• -Stuff in the RCW, then how its impacting the biz on the ground, the best policy research you are going to get is talking to the folks who are impacted
• -Stakeholdership and research is a close ven diagram

Easily able to talk to industry leaders, and donors on Jay’s campaign on why this is a priority and why its important

Overburdened have more say then those that are going to be some of the loudest

• Clusters
• Campaign work

• -$30M in Dairy Digestors
• -$10M for clean energy siting grants
• -$20.6M public building energy efficiency (audit)
• -$10.6M for solar grants an TA to support planning and dev