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City staff brief council on Climate Commitment Act; municipal gas utility 'marginally' over threshold and faces rising compliance costs
Summary
City Administrator Chris Searcy told the council Enumclaw's municipal gas utility is just over the 25,000 metric-ton threshold that requires participation in Washington's Climate Commitment Act. Staff outlined how allowances, auctions and declining no-cost allowances affect customer bills and recommended further council guidance and updated cost projections in May.
City Administrator Chris Searcy presented an informational Climate Commitment Act (CCA) workshop on March 9 outlining the program's framework and what it means for Enumclaw's municipal gas utility.
Searcy explained the CCA is a state cap-and-invest program intended to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. He said the city is "just marginally over the threshold of being pulled into the program," noting the 25,000 metric-ton annual-emissions threshold and that the city's 2023'025 average was just over that level. He said the city could theoretically exit the program if it remained below 25,000 metric tons for each year of a four-year…
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