WA Supreme Court upholds state climate law’s farm fuel exemption rules

By: Jerry Cornfield

Outlets: Washington State Standard

Published: June 25, 2026

Words: 706

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 1 day ago

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The state Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld Washington’s hotly contested regulations for how farmers and haulers of agricultural goods receive the exemption on fuel purchases promised under the state’s cap-and-trade system.

The court said the Department of Ecology didn’t exceed its authority with the rule it adopted. Nor did the agency’s rejection of a petition from the Washington Farm Bureau and Washington Trucking Associations to scrap it and start over “constitute arbitrary and capricious …

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