• Establishes a cap and invest program for greenhouse gas emissions to be implemented by the Department of Ecology.
• Directs distribution of auction revenues for the Forward Flexible Account and for specified purposes including clean transportation, natural climate resiliency, clean energy transition and assistance, and energy efficiency projects.
• Requires an environmental justice review to ensure that the cap and invest program achieves reduction sin criteria pollutants in overburdened communities highly impacted by air pollution.
• Convenes an Environmental Justice and Equity Advisory Panel to provide recommendations on the development and implementation of the cap and invest program.