RCW 80.80.020
Greenhouse gases emissions reduction -- Clean energy economy -- Goals -- Reports.

(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.]