Environmental Justice Listening Session

This meeting will provide information on the rulemaking process and amendment being made to Chapter 173-446 WAC and listen to participants’ input on environmental justice impacts of this rulemaking for Tribal communities, communities of color, low-income communities, and other communities who face multiple, combined environmental harms or health impacts.

This rulemaking would adopt amendments to WAC 173-446, Climate Commitment Act Program Rule.

Documents for review

We write rules to implement and enforce state and federal environmental laws and rules.  Ecology follows a 3-phase process for rulemaking:

1. Announcement and development
2. Proposal
3. Adoption

For each phase of the process, we update the rulemaking web page and notify interested parties. We also file notice in the Washington State Register. To learn more about Ecology’s rulemaking process, read the Frequently Asked Questions.