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City administrator briefs council on Climate Commitment Act'related costs and policy options for municipal gas utility
Summary
City Administrator Chris Searcy briefed the council on the Climate Commitment Act (CCA), explaining how it applies to municipal gas utilities, that the city's natural gas utility is marginally over the 25,000-metric-ton compliance threshold, and that first-year costs were about $250,000 with later costs approaching $400,000; staff recommended further analysis and potential legislative coordination with other municipal utilities.
City Administrator Chris Searcy told the Uniontown City Council on March 9 that the Climate Commitment Act (CCA) creates a cap-and-invest program that now applies to certain municipal natural gas utilities, including the city's utility.
Searcy said the program requires covered entities to obtain annual carbon allowances equal to their greenhouse gas emissions; the Department of Ecology runs quarterly auctions and distributes limited no-cost allowances. "We are just marginally over the threshold... our average emissions…
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