Sen. Joe Nguyễn (D-White Center), chair of the Senate Environment, Energy & Technology Committee, and Sen. Marko Liias (D-Everett), Chair of the Senate Transportation Committee, today affirmed the Legislature’s commitment to combatting climate change and moving toward a clean energy future. The legislators noted how investments made possible by the Climate Commitment Act are already supporting alternative fuels and electric vehicles, helping farmers and low-income households with energy efficiency upgrades like heat pumps and solar panels, protecting forestlands and watersheds, transit options and bike/pedestrian safety improvements, attracting major investments to Washington state like the new hydrogen hub — which is expected to create and support more than 10,000 good-paying jobs — and much more. “The investments funded by the Climate ...