Clean fuels bill gets yoked to transportation plan

Mullet amendment also limits carbon reduction, caps credit prices

The much-discussed low-carbon fuel standard picked up some strings and limitations on its way out of the Senate Ways and Means Committee this week.

House Bill 1091, originally sponsored by House Energy and Environment Chair Joe Fitzgibbon, is perhaps the most controversial of Gov. Jay Inslee’s climate proposals still alive in the Legislature. The oil in…