File #: 2025-0214    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: To Be Introduced
File created: 8/19/2025 In control: Transportation, Economy, and Environment Committee
On agenda: Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to the sale of environmental attributes held by the county; authorizing the executive office of climate to enter into an agreement with an environmental services aggregator who would support the tracking and reporting of low-carbon fuels usage in county fleets and production of low-carbon fuels to generate credits in the Washington Clean Fuels Program and manage the sale of credits to producers and suppliers of regulated fuels.
Sponsors: De'Sean Quinn
Indexes: Agreement, environment, Washington Clean Fuels Program
Attachments: 1. A. FuSE-King County Agreement, 2. 2025-0214 transmittal letter, 3. 2025-0214 Fiscal Note, 4. 2025-0214 Legislative Review Form
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Clerk 07/10/2025
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AN ORDINANCE relating to the sale of environmental attributes held by the county; authorizing the executive office of climate to enter into an agreement with an environmental services aggregator who would support the tracking and reporting of low-carbon fuels usage in county fleets and production of low-carbon fuels to generate credits in the Washington Clean Fuels Program and manage the sale of credits to producers and suppliers of regulated fuels.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Chapter 70A.535 RCW established a Clean Fuels Program with the objective of reducing emissions from transportation fuels. A clean fuel standard program is a market-based policy mechanism designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation by setting and gradually reducing the carbon intensity of transportation fuels like gasoline, diesel, and electricity. The Clean Fuels Program created in Washington achieves that goal by creating a marketplace that rewards public and private entities that invest in clean transportation. The Clean Fuels Program began on January 1, 2023. In 2025, chapter 70A.535 RCW was amended requiring that the carbon intensity of the state's transportation fuels be reduced to forty five percent below 2017 levels by 2038.
2. Under the Clean Fuels Program, suppliers of fossil-based transportation fuels are regulated entities that must comply with the regulation by reducing the carbon intensity of fuels they sell or by purchasing credits from producers and suppliers of low-carbon fuels.
3. County departments can generate credits under the Clean Fuels Program in the following ways: by using low- and no-carbon fuels for powering county fleets, including electricity used by both new and existing electric vehicle-charging infrastructure and fixed-guideway networks; using propane for vehicles; and generating renewable fuels for the transportation sector, such as renewable natural gas from landfill gas.
4. The county registere...

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