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2025 Legislative Session
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We’ve done a lot in Washington to advance our efforts to cut toxic air pollution, provide more options for efficient, clean energy, and create good in-state jobs. We know Washington voters want climate action—we’re coming off an incredible victory in 2024 by defeating I-2117 to protect the Climate Commitment Act.
Our Legislative work in 2025 will zero in on more ways we can continue to go big and reduce our climate pollution by half within the next five years. Addressing climate change has always been an enormous challenge, but our wins in Washington demonstrate that we can and we must keep building on our progress.
2025 Legislative Priorities
- Invest Climate Commitment Act revenue in deep pollution cuts: CCA dollars must be spent strategically to make sure we rapidly reduce pollution, meet our climate goals, and improve people's lives. In the first two years of CCA dollars, the Legislature funded the start of critical programs and helped grow others. We must continue these successes by funding programs like zero-emission medium-and heavy-duty vehicle vouchers; instant EV rebates for Washingtonians living on low incomes; EV community and home charging; 100% clean school buses; heat pumps and more.
- Build on what’s working: We need to keep doing what we’re doing, while reviewing and assessing what can be improved. Examples: extend the WA EV sales tax waiver, which expires in July 2025; allow EV manufacturers to sell directly to consumers; implement charger reliability standards to make charging easier; support a clean maritime sector through port electrification grants and continuing hybrid electric ferry buildout; boost transmission capacity; require grid enhancing technologies; improve clean energy siting processes.
- Defend our progress: We’re no strangers to defending our climate progress;, this legislative session is no different. The Advanced Clean Truck rule has attracted the ire of the trucking industry and some truckmakers don’t want to follow the rules to get rid of dirty diesel—ACT is a critical tool for Washington to clean up diesel pollution from big trucks, vans, and buses, and help protect your lungs and neighborhood. We need to protect it!
We’re also working with the Environmental Priorities Coalition. You can read more about those priorities here.
Washington State Government
Carbon markets expand, cheap oil reshuffles deck
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Solar jobs up 22 percent last year, carbon market comes to South Korea, fossil-free Danish island inspires Maine utilities, and more…
Time for Local Climate Action in WA State
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The 2015 Washington State Legislature gets underway in Olympia, and local officials across Washington are ready.
Carbon fee wins support, green investment up 16%
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Study says which fossil-fuel deposits should stay buried, Republicans back solar energy in Florida, Keystone fight emboldens opponents of other…
Cut carbon pollution, create clean energy jobs: Legislative priorities 2015
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Climate change—and climate action—top the list of big issues before this year's Washington State Legislature.
2014 ends–and 2015 begins–with climate action
by Ben Serrurier on
2014--the year which saw the largest climate action march ever, plus victories over big coal and advances in clean energy--is coming…
Carbon price at work in CA & EU; now floated for WA
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Gov. Inslee’s carbon pollution fee wins praise, import tariffs split the PV industry, some car-makers bet on hydrogen fuel cells over battery EVs,…
Climate action is a matter of fairness
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Washington environmental and clean energy economy leaders respond to Governor Jay Inslee's climate action announcement, and praise the vision of…
Let big polluters pay the price of pollution
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For several years, the Northwest has opposed big coal's slew of coal export proposals. Thanks to you, we stopped four…
Under Lima pact, all nations to cut carbon...voluntarily
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Cheap petroleum leads firms to stop oil drilling, South Carolina gets net-metering for solar, carbon taxes get backing from studies in Oregon…
Clean fuels: the benefits add up
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Instead of handing over $14 billion to Big Oil every year and paying the price for fossil fuel pollution, why don't we invest a portion of…
Clean power prices drop, installations and orders up
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Renewable fuels advance; carbon pricing on the docket; increasing opposition to oil-drilling; China to cap coal by 2020; global warming impacts far…
Taskforce recommends carbon pricing for Washington
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Ending polluters' free ride is the key recommendation of Governor Inslee's task force on carbon emissions.
New money, policies and promises for climate action
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Reverberations of the U.S.-China climate commitments keep echoing, federal clean energy fund turns a profit, lightweight solar panels you can…
Few bright spots for climate in midterm election results
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A few victories soften the blow of an otherwise painful midterm election, Oregon NGO cleanses its portfolio of fossil fuels, Brazil attracts…
Carbon pricing gets a boost
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Gov. Inslee floats a carbon tax as a solution to the state’s education funding problem, a coal mine sells for $2, mayors announce a nationwide…
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