Clean energy homes for Washington: council proposes code improvements
Washington's State Building Code Coundil is recommending updates to residential building energy codes this year, accelerating clean, electric new construction
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2025 Legislative Session
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We’ve done a lot in Washington to advance our efforts to cut toxic air pollution, provide more options for efficient, clean energy, and create good in-state jobs. We know Washington voters want climate action—we’re coming off an incredible victory in 2024 by defeating I-2117 to protect the Climate Commitment Act.
Our Legislative work in 2025 will zero in on more ways we can continue to go big and reduce our climate pollution by half within the next five years. Addressing climate change has always been an enormous challenge, but our wins in Washington demonstrate that we can and we must keep building on our progress.
2025 Legislative Priorities
- Invest Climate Commitment Act revenue in deep pollution cuts: CCA dollars must be spent strategically to make sure we rapidly reduce pollution, meet our climate goals, and improve people's lives. In the first two years of CCA dollars, the Legislature funded the start of critical programs and helped grow others. We must continue these successes by funding programs like zero-emission medium-and heavy-duty vehicle vouchers; instant EV rebates for Washingtonians living on low incomes; EV community and home charging; 100% clean school buses; heat pumps and more.
- Build on what’s working: We need to keep doing what we’re doing, while reviewing and assessing what can be improved. Examples: extend the WA EV sales tax waiver, which expires in July 2025; allow EV manufacturers to sell directly to consumers; implement charger reliability standards to make charging easier; support a clean maritime sector through port electrification grants and continuing hybrid electric ferry buildout; boost transmission capacity; require grid enhancing technologies; improve clean energy siting processes.
- Defend our progress: We’re no strangers to defending our climate progress;, this legislative session is no different. The Advanced Clean Truck rule has attracted the ire of the trucking industry and some truckmakers don’t want to follow the rules to get rid of dirty diesel—ACT is a critical tool for Washington to clean up diesel pollution from big trucks, vans, and buses, and help protect your lungs and neighborhood. We need to protect it!
We’re also working with the Environmental Priorities Coalition. You can read more about those priorities here.
Washington State Government
Washington's long-term growth planning must consider climate change
by Climate Solutions on
Prepared testimony supporting HB 1099, revising Washington's Growth Management Act to consider climate response in long-term regional planning
High hopes and great expectations: a political shift on climate
by Jonathan Lawson on
Washington's legislative session begins. So does the Biden administration.
Cutting pollution with clean fuels: a top climate priority for Washington
by Leah Missik on
Right now, Washington is a lonely outlier on the West coast: the only state that is not benefiting from a Clean Fuel Standard.
2021: Action time for climate in the Washington Legislature
by Vlad Gutman-Britten on
Naysayers will claim that this is not the time for climate action in Washington, not with COVID, racial injustice, and economic recovery on the…
Here's your clean energy team for 2021
by Jonathan Lawson on
Biden's climate picks bring experience, grit and a focus on environmental justice. Plus: Who the gas industry is targeting now, and climate book…
The surprising economics behind going all-electric (hint, the numbers are pretty good)
by Deepa Sivarajan on
So far our blog series on clean, all-electric buildings has shown how we can reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and improve our health and safety,…
Climate Leaders Live: What's next for WA in 2021?
by Stephanie Noren on
After you vote... join our conversation with Transportation Choices Coalition and Front & Centered to talk about what's next for climate action…
A Win for transit riders, disability community, clean air and less congestion
by Climate Solutions on
WA's Supreme Court strikes down controversial initiative that threatened transportation improvements and investments across the state
Take the Climate Voter Pledge!
by Jonathan Lee on
One of the strongest ways to address the climate crisis head-on is with your vote.
It doesn't have to feel like Life on Mars
by Gregg Small on
Our climate movement is more unified than ever, but we're reaching a critical point where we must change a lot of things all at once. Let's do this…
3 ways to cope with the smoke
by Jonathan Lee on
If you live west of the Cascades in the Pacific Northwest, you likely woke up yesterday to an awful late-summer surprise (if you weren't under…
Roads ahead for clean transportation in Washington
by Leah Missik on
Washington must address the climate pollution that comes from our largest source of it—transportation.
What happened to our climate leadership?
by Vlad Gutman-Britten on
Washington Senate Democrats allowed the most significant climate policy proposal this year—the Clean Fuel Standard—to languish and die.
2020 Washington State legislative session ends in climate failure
by Climate Solutions on
Washington Senate Democrats handed veto power to a small minority of its caucus, and failed to take action to cut transportation pollution—ignoring a…
Senate Transportation Committee next to consider WA Clean Fuels bill
by Climate Solutions on
Efforts to make available cleaner transportation fuels in Washington State move forward as bill passes out of a key Senate committee
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