We can have cleaner air, better and cheaper transportation options, and healthier communities right now — but we need your voice to make it happen!
The state Legislature is considering a Clean Fuel Standard for the third year in a row. This year’s bill, HB 1091, has passed the House of Representatives three times now, and it’s up to the Senate to deliver this critical climate policy this April.
Speak up for clean fuels today
It’s up to the Senate to pass HB 1091 — please take a moment to urge your senator to support this critical climate and health policy.
A Clean Fuel Standard is a foundational tool for facing the climate crisis, as it helps clean up our state’s transportation sector, which is responsible for nearly half of the carbon emissions in Washington. Making transportation fuels cleaner will literally help Washingtonians breathe easier: reducing the toxicity of dirty fuels will be easier on our lungs, especially for people living near freeways and ports, kids and adults with asthma and cardiovascular disease, and anyone with respiratory conditions.
The Clean Fuel Standard is a foundational climate policy. Photo from 2019 climate march in Seattle by Nikolaj Lasbo.
The Clean Fuel Standard requires oil companies and other fuel producers to clean up their products, encouraging higher efficiency refining, incentivizing the production of renewable biofuels and the use of electricity. It doesn’t mean everyone will need to rush out and buy an electric car, or even make any changes to the vehicles they already drive — even long-haul trucks and farm equipment can run on cleaner-burning biodiesel blended with fossil diesel without modifying their engines. But the program will invest in cleaner mass transit and in building the electrification infrastructure we’ll need as we transition to cleaner ways of getting around.
from fryers to fuels
Did you know that restaurants across Washington are already recycling their used cooking oil into renewable fuels? Learn more and explore whether your favorite takeout spot is part of the growing circular economy.
Our neighbors in California, Oregon and British Columbia all have Clean Fuel Standards in place, and they’re working — increasing the production of alternative fuels, which are cleaner and often cheaper than dirty fossil fuels, and are produced closer to home, making their economies less beholden to the fluctuations of the volatile global oil market. Washington state has a handful of biofuel refineries already, but most of the fuel they produce is shipped out-of-state to be used by our West Coast neighbors. A Clean Fuel Standard would help keep these fuels here at home, attract business investments in biofuels and electrification, employ more Washingtonians in the clean energy economy, and help fight climate change and improve our air quality.
We must pass HB 1091 this session - there’s no more time to delay. Please take a moment to urge your state senator to support Clean Fuels.
Thank you for speaking up for cleaner air and cleaner fuels — and for helping all of us breathe a little easier.
Banner photo: Restaurant owner Yuki Sodos speaks up for Clean Fuels now at an event in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District. Photo by Brittany Gallagher.
