Ecology confirms Commerce ‘significantly inflated’ CCA emissions reductions

(The Center Square) – The state Department of Ecology has admitted that a recent report on carbon emission reductions through projects financed by the Climate Commitment Act was “significantly inflated” by the Department of Commerce after one environmental analyst previously questioned the effectiveness of several projects. Commerce has now sent back revised figures.

Last month, The Center Square reported that Ecology’s report claimed that a single $1.4 million project through the Ellensburg Public Works Department reduced emissions by 3.5 million metric tons, more than a third of total carbon emissions by CCA projects in two years. Prior to the article’s publication, Washington Policy Center Vice President of Research Todd Meyers questioned the project’s effectiveness to reduce one metric ton of carbon for every $1 spent.

Myers then published a fol...