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Enumclaw hears Climate Commitment Act briefing as city utility sits near regulatory threshold
Summary
City Administrator Chris Searcy told the council that Enumclaw's municipal gas utility is "marginally" over the CCA threshold of 25,000 metric tons and outlined options including reducing gas load, seeking alternative compliance with other municipal utilities, and potential legislative or grant strategies; council asked staff to return in May with more information.
City Administrator Chris Searcy briefed the Enumclaw City Council on March 9 about the Climate Commitment Act and what it means for the city's municipal natural-gas utility, saying the city currently sits just over the 25,000 metric-ton threshold that draws a utility into the state program.
"It is the law. We need to follow it," Searcy said, explaining the CCA is a state cap-and-invest program that requires covered entities to obtain annual carbon allowances equal to their greenhouse-gas emissions. "Our average emissions for '23 through '25 was a little over 25,000 metric tons," he said, noting the city is only marginally above the cutoff and that ecology can retain a utility in the program if it is within 10 percent of the threshold.
Searcy described…
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