Alliance members are working to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius by reducing emissions, accelerating action, centering equity, and tracking progress. 

Explore Washington's policies and actions across the Alliance's 10 key policy areas. Numbers presented below only reflect the number of policies in this database and thus may not reflect all climate policies pursued.

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Buy Clean and Buy Fair Low-Carbon Manufacturing Plan

The Department of Commerce released its "Buy Clean and Buy Fair Low-carbon manufacturing plan," developed by the state’s Buy Clean and Buy Fair Technical Working Group. This legislative report includes an assessment of how the state can grow low-carbon manufacturing and support workforce development, and also includes additional embodied carbon policy recommendations the state could undertake.

HB 1125 - Making transportation appropriations for the 2021-2023 and 2023-2025 fiscal biennia

Appropriations totaling $13.5 billion are made for state transportation agencies and
programs for the 2023-25 fiscal biennium from a number of transportation accounts. 

HB 2367 Eliminating preferential treatment related to a coal-fired electric generating plant.

Governor Ferguson signed HB 2367, eliminating preferential treatment to a coal-fired electric generating plant by removing tax and regulatory exemptions. The bill specifies that the exemption from the Cap-and-Invest Program from a coal facility applies only to emissions before January 1, 2026. Additionally, it removes the limitation on state agencies or political subdivisions to impose additional performance standards and repeals the sales and use tax exemptions for coal purchased or used at a coal facility. 

Executive Order 21-11, Uniform Approach for Identifying Overburdened Communities to Direct and Track Investments

Executive Order 24-11, Uniform Approach for Identifying Overburdened Communities to Direct and Track Investments under the Healthy Environment for All and Climate Commitment Acts, seeks to ensure the state is upholding its budgetary and reporting duties on environmental justice. The Healthy Environment for All (HEAL) and Climate Commitment Act (CCA) embedded environmental justice into state government, including directing investments to vulnerable populations. However, state agencies need effective, accurate, and uniform reporting on invested funds.

Following Executive Directive 24-11, the state established a standardized method to identify overburdened communities and vulnerable populations for HEAL and CCA investments, ensuring that investments effectively target these groups and that benefits are created and progress is tracked consistently across state agencies. For FY25, the Uniform Approach is the primary method for determining investments for overburdened communities. However, in May 2025, the HEAL Interagency workgroup developed the Provisional Guidance on an Alternative Method of Identifying Overburdened Communities. This guidance helps determine if a project or program benefits an overburdened community that is not in a geographic area identified in the Uniform Approach.

Provisional Guidance on Alternative Methods 

Pursuant to Executive Order 24-11, these guidelines outline a uniform approach for executive and small cabinet agencies to identify overburdened communities and vulnerable populations to direct and track investments under the Healthy Environment for All (HEAL) Act and Climate Commitment Act (CCA). The approach ensures that investments made under these laws are effectively directed towards creating benefits for vulnerable populations in overburdened communities and tracked consistently across state agencies. This approach will guide investments and tracking methods for fiscal years 2024 and 2025. It does not apply retroactively. The Governor’s Office intends that this approach be updated to guide investments and tracking for the 2025-2027 biennium.

Uniform Approach Guidelines

The mapping tool can be used to view where Overburdened Communities are located in Washington State. This tool was created using Washington’s Environmental Health Disparities Map, Climate Economic Justice Screening Tool and Tribal Data and uses several key indicators, including health, income, and exposure to environmental hazards.

Overburdened Communities Mapping Tool

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The e-bike rebate program is funded through the Washington state legislature’s transportation budget. Funding comes from the Climate Commitment Act. Washington State Department of Transportations’ Active Transportation Division is tasked with designing and implementing the program according to rules set by the legislature.

- Sixty percent of the funds are directed towards $1200 rebates and forty percent of funds towards $300 rebates
- People must submit an application, be selected, and send in eligibility documentation for approval before receiving a rebate
- Rebates must be redeemed in person at a approved bike shop in Washington state that sells and services e-bikes
- Rebates must be used to purchase an eligible e-bike