As summer season involves an in depth, there are simply 4 quick months left earlier than the cap-and-invest program launches on January 1, 2023, and we’re onerous at work guaranteeing companies and people that want to take part within the new allowance market have the instruments and assets wanted to take action. Right here’s a fast recap of what August had in retailer.
Incorporating your enter
Rulemaking remains to be underway for the Chapter 173-446 WAC rule. Our formal public remark interval ended on July 15, 2022, and we spent weeks studying, analyzing, and drafting responses to over 1,400 feedback submitted by mail, on-line, and through our 4 formal public hearings in June.
Responses to all feedback might be made public within the Concise Explanatory Assertion, a doc which outlines all of the feedback acquired and why or why not a change was made to the rule because of that suggestions. That doc, together with the adopted rule language, our rule implementation plan, and different paperwork might be made public when the rule is adopted.
Based mostly on the feedback acquired, there might be some small amendments to the rule that can enhance the readability of the ultimate language when it’s adopted within the fall. By legislation, the rule should be adopted by October 1, 2022, and we’re on monitor to satisfy that deadline.
You possibly can learn all submitted feedback in our on-line remark portal.
Making a market
As we talked about in final month’s weblog, we not too long ago launched a brand new CCA auctions and buying and selling webpage to function a hub for info on the cap-and-invest market platform, trainings for collaborating companies and people, and upcoming auctions (as soon as scheduled).
We not too long ago opened registration for the primary three trainings for market members. These trainings will stroll by way of the method of registering for an account within the Compliance Instrument Monitoring System Service (CITSS). A CITSS account is required to be able to purchase and promote allowances or offset credit within the cap-and-invest market, so we strongly encourage anybody who’s interested by collaborating to attend the related trainings.
You possibly can register for these trainings within the Extra assets part of the Auctions and Buying and selling webpage, and join e-mail alerts to be notified about new trainings as they change into out there.
A renewable useful resource
And the hits simply hold coming! Web site hits, that’s.
Scorching on the heels of the brand new auctions web page, we’ve additionally simply unveiled our new CCA emissions reporting webpage, which is able to function a one-stop useful resource for anybody who needs to know who must report their emissions and methods to do it.
Whereas the CCA’s emissions reporting necessities are constructed off the prevailing rules governing our Greenhouse Gasoline Reporting Program (Chapter 173-441 WAC), the CCA additionally accommodates some extra necessities particular to the cap-and-invest program.
This new webpage will present details about how companies can report their emissions, once they want to take action, and the way they’ll entry related trainings. Actually, the emissions reporting workforce simply opened registration for our first coaching for gasoline suppliers — aimed toward suppliers of gasoline apart from pure gasoline, like diesel, propane, and gasoline.
Facilitating suggestions
Final month, we talked about that we might start a second public engagement interval within the fall for the Enhancing Air High quality in Overburdened Communities initiative. This effort is for the part of the Local weather Dedication Act that directs Ecology to develop a course of to determine overburdened communities extremely impacted by air air pollution.
We’re presently constructing out an inclusive engagement course of to achieve neighborhood members throughout the state. On this fall engagement course of, we sit up for listening to if our draft course of to determine overburdened communities extremely impacted by air air pollution displays your experiences with air air pollution. We developed this draft course of utilizing suggestions acquired within the preliminary engagement interval.
As soon as these communities are recognized, Ecology will develop air high quality monitoring and develop methods to cut back air air pollution in these recognized communities.
Extra details about this fall engagement course of might be made out there within the coming weeks on the initiative webpage.
