Conservative Groups Sues Washington Over Late Release Of Climate (scam) Reports

This is kinda hilarious, since it is usually Warmists suing to force Other People to comply with the beliefs they rarely ever practice

Group sues WA over late reporting on greenhouse gas emissions

A conservative think tank filed a lawsuit Wednesday against two Washington state agencies over delays in reporting the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.

The Washington Policy Center said in a news release that it filed the lawsuit against the Washington State Department of Ecology and the Department of Commerce to force the agencies to comply with a state law that requires timely emissions reporting.

According to state law passed in 2008, the two agencies are required to report the state’s total greenhouse gas emissions at the end of even-numbered years. The reports also must include “the total emissions of greenhouse gases for the preceding two years, and totals in each major source sector,” according to state law.

In January, Ecology released the state’s latest emissions inventory through 2021. The report showed that overall greenhouse gas emissions dipped 13.8% in 2020 during the pandemic but rose 8.8% in 2021, largely driven by the transportation sector.

The state is required by law to release data through 2023, according to the Washington Policy Center.

Well, the WPC doesn’t actually think that Democrat government has to fully comply with the laws they passed, do they?

In a news release, Todd Myers, the group’s vice president for research, accused the state of “wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on frivolous and ineffective climate projects” and said the delay in reporting accurate emissions data hides the failures of state projects.

“Washington state claims to be a leader in climate policy but policymakers don’t even have recent data to determine if our policies are working,” Myers said in a news release.

Well, it’s a great way to shift some taxpayer money to donors and force the peasants to change their lives, eh?

In a statement, Ecology spokesperson Caroline Halter said that the department is “committed to providing more current emissions updates to lawmakers and the public” and will be able to do that “thanks to recent funding appropriated by the Legislature.”

Ah, so they are late because they wanted more taxpayer money. Scam.

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