Governor Inslee has released his proposal for the 2020 supplemental budget. His proposals for reducing emissions propose funding for:

• Raising the State’s emission reduction targets to match the Paris Accord’s – in the form of a 45% reduction from 2010 levels by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050.
• A study of ways to increase sequestration on state forest, agricultural, and aquatic lands. ($1.4 million)
• Implementing a Clean Transportation Fuels Standard (1.5 million).
• Additional EV charging at State facilities ($4.1 million).
• Implementing Zero Emission Vehicle legislation.
• Requiring ride hailing companies like Lyft and Uber to reduce their emissions.
• A comprehensive analysis by Commerce to develop a 2050 Energy Vision identifying the most effective strategies to reduce emissions for key energy users and customers.
• A $20 million extension of the renewable energy system tax incentive for community solar projects.
• Developing new rules that he directed Ecology to adopt by September 2021 to “strengthen and standardize the consideration of climate change risks, vulnerability, and impacts” in State Environmental Policy Act assessments for major industrial and fossil fuel projects. (These are to include upstream and downstream emissions.)
• Continuing to implement last session’s 100% Clean Electricity bill.