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Washington Adopts Two Ambitious Environmental Justice Laws | Troutman Pepper


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Last week, Washington became the latest state to address environmental justice (EJ) through legislation by adopting the
Climate Commitment Act into law. The HEAL Act, which is the more comprehensive of the two passed laws, was based on
recommendations of a state-funded environmental task force issued in fall of 2020 and seeks to remedy the effects of past disparate treatment of vulnerable communities. The Climate Commitment Act is a more targeted law that establishes a greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions cap-and-invest program with the goal of reducing GHG and criteria pollutants in overburdened communities highly impacted by air pollution. Although the laws become effective on July 25, their major EJ-related requirements take effect at later dates. ....

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Historic Climate Bill Passes Washington State Legislature


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 y ....

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