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Committee advances substitute to regulate Spokane waste‑to‑energy facility outside Climate Commitment Act
Summary
A proposed substitute to House Bill 2,416 that would remove Washington’s single Spokane waste‑to‑energy plant from the Climate Commitment Act and impose phased greenhouse‑gas limits and new reporting and enforcement requirements was reported out of the Environment and Energy Committee 12–9.
The Environment and Energy Committee on Friday reported out a substitute to House Bill 2,416 that would remove Washington’s only waste‑to‑energy facility from the Climate Commitment Act and place it under a separate regulatory scheme with phased greenhouse‑gas limits.
Megan McFadden, staff to the committee, said the substitute “removes the no cost allowances to waste to energy facilities, and instead it exempts the emissions from waste to energy facilities used by county and city solid waste…
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