Page 61 - Climate Commitment Act News Today

Under the Climate Commitment Act, the money will go toward funding climate solutions and investing in communities that face environmental injustice.

Electric cars have made big strides, but large vehicles lag. Everett’s airport could soon be swept up in the wave of the future.

The cap-and-invest program sets a limit on carbon emissions, requiring businesses to obtain allowances for greenhouse gas emissions.

The state’s first auction for pollution allowances sold all of its nearly 6.2 million allowances, each of which represented one metric ton of greenhouse gas emissions. The settlement price was $48.50 per ton.

(The Center Square) – History was made Monday morning when President Sauli Niinistö of Finland addressed a joint session of the Washington State Legislature – the first time a foreign

Washington Department of Ecology officials are planning to increase air monitoring in areas with vulnerable populations and higher amounts of air pollution across the state as part of an environmental

Under the CCA, businesses emitting more than 25,000 metric tons of carbon per year will be required to pay for each metric ton of emissions.

Puget Sound Clean Air Agency sets new pollution-reduction goals for health, climate and justice.

SEATTLE — Blue and orange flames flicker and whir within five massive natural gas-fired boilers, visible only through hatches where coal used to be shoveled.

Washington state’s cap-and-invest program imposes a statewide limit, or cap, on planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.