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City administrator briefs council on Climate Commitment Act, warns of rising compliance costs
Summary
City Administrator Chris Searcy told enumclaw council members the municipal gas utility was marginally over the CCA 25,000‑metric‑ton threshold, explained how no‑cost allowances and auctions work, and said compliance costs have grown from roughly $250,000 initially to hundreds of thousands of dollars annually with uncertain future increases.
City Administrator Chris Searcy gave an informational workshop March 9 explaining how Washington’s Climate Commitment Act (CCA) affects Enumclaw’s municipal natural‑gas utility and outlining choices the city may face.
Searcy described the CCA as a state cap‑and‑invest program that requires covered entities to obtain allowances equal to their yearly greenhouse‑gas emissions. He said municipalities become "covered entities" when average emissions exceed 25,000 metric tons in the baseline period; Enumclaw’s average emissions for 2023–2025 were described on the record as just over that…
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