HB 2815-S2.E - DIGEST |
(DIGEST AS ENACTED) |
Requires the state to limit greenhouse gas emissions to achieve emission reductions for Washington state established by this act. |
Requires the director to develop, in coordination with the western climate initiative, a design for a regional multisector market-based system to limit and reduce emissions of greenhouse gas consistent with the emission reductions established in this act. |
Requires the department of ecology and the department of community, trade, and economic development to provide a report to the legislature with recommendations regarding a regional multisector market-based system, by December 1, 2008. |
Requires the department to adopt rules requiring annual reporting of total greenhouse gas emissions. |
Declares that the department of transportation shall adopt broad statewide goals to reduce annual per capita vehicle miles traveled by 2050 consistent with the stated goals of executive order 07-02. |
Establishes a comprehensive green economy jobs growth initiative based on the goal of, by 2020, increasing the number of green economy jobs to twenty-five thousand from the eight thousand four hundred jobs the state had in 2004. |