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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GHG Targets + Governance

Just Transition + Equity

Industry

Pricing Carbon + Valuing Damages

Electricity

Transportation

Resilience

Natural + Working Lands

Climate Finance

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HB 2246: Environmental Health Law Reorganization

Washington House Bill 2246 (2019–20) recodifies statutes pertaining to environmental health under a new Title 70A of the Revised Code of Washington (RCW), consolidating laws on topics like air pollution, hazardous waste, and recycling. The bill corrects outdated references, statute numbers, and administrative rule citations to ensure consistency across state regulations. Importantly, the legislation makes no substantive policy changes, focusing solely on structural and technical updates to improve clarity and accessibility of environmental laws.

HB2301 Waste Material Management

This legislation:

- Establishes new grant programs related to food waste reduction and organic material management policy implementation
- Amends organic material collection service requirements for local governments, residents, and businesses
- Establishes color requirements for garbage, recycling, and organic material disposal bins
- Amends labeling requirements related to the degradability of plastic or non-plastic products
- Amends compost procurement programs and requirements

Dashboards have been developed to track the progress of specific state agencies in implementing the HEAL (Healthy Environment for All) Act.
	- Budget and funding dashboard: Tracking the funding of projects that could result in environmental benefits, and how much of the funding goes to overburdened communities.
	- Strategic planning dashboard: Tracking how agencies covered by the HEAL Act are incorporating environment justice into their strategic plans. 
	- Environmental justice assessment dashboard: Tracking the types of actions that have prompted covered agencies to assess environmental justice impacts, and the status of those assessments.

HEAL Act Dashboards

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The state Legislature passed organics management laws in 2022 and 2024. These laws aim to divert organic materials away from landfills through prevention, food rescue, and organics management facilities.

These actions will help Washington achieve its 2030 goal to reduce organic material in the landfill by 75%.

Washington’s organics management laws will divert organics from landfills and reduce methane emissions, which is a key strategy to address climate change. These laws simultaneously create opportunities for food waste prevention and recovery while supporting the compost market.

Organics Management Law

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RCW 70A.45.020: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions—Reporting Requirements

Revised Code of Washington (RCW) 70A.45.020 establishes Washington state's targets for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and outlines reporting obligations to monitor progress.

Washington State Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory: 1990-2021

This report summarizes Washington’s greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 through 2021 to track the state’s progress against its legal limits on greenhouse gas emissions. The next inventory will be published by December 2026 and include data through 2023.