(1) The following greenhouse
gases emissions reduction and clean energy economy goals are
established for Washington state:
(a) By 2020, reduce overall greenhouse gases emissions in
the state to 1990 levels;
(b) By 2035, reduce overall greenhouse gases emissions in
the state to twenty-five percent below 1990 levels;
(c) By 2050, the state will do its part to reach global
climate stabilization levels by reducing overall emissions to
fifty percent below 1990 levels, or seventy percent below the
state's expected emissions that year; and
(d) By 2020, increase the number of clean energy sector jobs
to twenty-five thousand from the eight thousand four hundred jobs
the state had in 2004.
(2)(a) By December 31, 2007, the departments of ecology and
community, trade, and economic development shall report to the
appropriate committees of the senate and house of representatives
the total greenhouse gases emissions for 1990 and the totals in
each major sector for 1990.
(b) By December 31st of each even-numbered year beginning in
2010, the departments of ecology and community, trade, and
economic development shall report to the governor and the
appropriate committees of the senate and house of representatives
the total greenhouse gases emissions for the preceding two years,
and totals in each major source sector.
[2007 c 307 § 3.]