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How a big chunk of Inslee’s climate package died

How a big chunk of Inslee’s climate package died

Labor, industry opposition, COVID-era clock management killed clean buildings bill

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Feb 24, 2021
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A big piece of Gov. Jay Inslee’s climate agenda died this week in a House committee, defeated by opposition from a labor-industry coalition and a punitive COVID-era procedural shot clock.

The fate of House Bill 1084, also known as the Healthy Homes and Clean Buildings Act, offers a textbook illustration of how legislation gets killed. There was overt opp…

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