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City hears Climate Commitment Act briefing as municipal gas utility faces rising costs
Summary
City Administrator Chris Searcy briefed the Uniontown City Council on Washington's Climate Commitment Act (CCA), explaining the cap-and-invest framework, that the city's gas utility is marginally over the 25,000 metric-ton threshold and that compliance costs could rise into the mid- to high six figures without new policy or grant support.
City Administrator Chris Searcy told the Uniontown City Council on March 9 that the state's Climate Commitment Act is law and that the city's municipal gas utility has been pulled into the program because its average greenhouse-gas emissions for 2023'025 were "a little over 25,000 metric tons." He said the program requires covered entities to obtain annual carbon allowances and that the city is currently purchasing allowances and using auction proceeds to offset customer impacts.
Searcy framed the CCA as a cap-and-invest program patterned after California's system and emphasized the uncertainty in projecting future costs. "We are just marginally over the…
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