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Created a GHG emissions performance standard that applies to acquisition of an equity interest or lease in electric power-generating units primarily fueled with coal in the state, requiring the use of CCS for a minimum of 50% of the CO2 produced.

In 2009, Washington adopted a GHG performance standard for new in-state baseload electric power generation utilities, set orginally at 1,100 pounds CO2/MWh, and reduced to 926 lb/MWh since.

Oregon’s SB 1547 (2016) created an explicit prohibition on the use of coal power by investor-owned utilities as of 2030.

Prohibited any new long-term investment by a California load-serving entity in a generating facility with smokestack emissions exceeding a level to be jointly determined by the California Energy Commission and California Public Utilities Commission.