Environmental Justice Council Meeting Materials

November 18, 2022 Special Meeting

Table of Contents

Agenda - English ........................................................................................................................................................ 1

Continue Discussion and Potential Adoption of Recommendations to the Governor on CCA Funding Priorities............. 2
Memo .................................................................................................................................................................................. 2
DRAFT: Proposed CCA Funding Priority Recommendations (updated 11/15/22) .............................................................. 3
Written Public Comments ........................................................................................................................................ 12
 Environmental Justice Council
Tuesday November 18, 2022
2:45pm – 4:00pm
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Draft Agenda
2:45pm – 2:50pm I. Welcome and Roll Call Tevin Medley, Facilitator

Council Members

2:50pm – 3:00pm II. Public Comment

3:00pm – 3:55pm III. Continue Discussion from 11/15/22 Tevin Medley

Special Meeting and Potential Council Members
Adoption of Recommendations to
the Governor on Climate
Commitment Act (CCA) Funding
Priorities

-Possible Council Action

3:55pm – 4:00pm IV. Next Steps and Farewell Tevin Medley

Council Members

Important Information:

• The Council may move agenda items around on the day of the meeting.
• Emergency contact number during the meeting is 360-584-4398.
• To request this document in an alternate format or a different language, please contact Sierra
Rotakhina in any language, at envjustice@ejc.wa.gov or 360-584-4398.

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 Environmental Justice Council
Date: November 18, 2022
To: Environmental Justice Council Members
From: Sierra Rotakhina, Council Manager
Subject: Climate Commitment Act Funding Priorities

Background and Summary:

The Environmental Justice Council (Council) held a special meeting on November 15, 2022 to discuss its
Climate Commitment Act funding recommendations for the Governor. The Council did not adopt the proposed
recommendations at that meeting. The Council is meeting again today to continue this discussion and
potentially adopt recommendations.

At this meeting the Council will be focusing on the portions of the recommendations that the Members did
not discuss at the November 15th meeting—specifically the last section of the recommendations under the
header: “Recommendations for the Governor’s Operating Budget.” You can find more details on the
November 15th meeting here: November 15 2022 EJ Council Meeting Packet(2).pdf (waportal.org). The
meeting recording is posted here: Environmental Justice Council: Special Meeting - Zoom. The Council may
also choose to discuss public comments provided at the November 15th meeting and at today’s meeting as
well as the written public comments the Council has received. Comment letters are available on page 12
through 17 of today’s meeting packet.

Staff Recommended Actions:

Staff recommend that the Council discuss, amend if necessary, and adopt the following motion:
The Council adopts the Climate Commitment Act funding priority recommendations
as amended at the November 18, 2022 Council meeting, and directs staff to submit
those recommendations to the Governor and the Office of Financial Management
to inform the development of the Governor’s 2023-2025 Budget.

Staff Contact
Sierra Rotakhina, Council Manager, sierra.rotakhina@ejc.wa.gov, 360-584-4398
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 Environmental Justice Council
Proposed Climate Commitment Act (CCA) &
Governor’s Budget Priorities as of 11-17-22

It is the intent of the Environmental Justice Council (Council) that the below topics are prioritized, even if the
funding does not come from the respective account under which the priority is listed.

General Recommendations:
• State agencies that allocate funding or administer grant programs using revenue generated by the CCA
should go through the Tribal Consultation process outlined in RCW 70A.65.305, regardless of the
account.
• The State budget must reflect the legal mandates under RCW 70A.65.230 and provide transparency in
meeting those mandates by providing “direct and meaningful benefit to overburdened communities
and vulnerable populations.” The funding must be focused and meaningfully targeted to overburdened
communities and vulnerable populations and impacts tracked by implementing agencies, guided by a
detailed description of the “direct and meaningful benefit” and “the populations/communities
benefiting” as a direct result of the proposed investments. The Council will work with the Governor
and the Legislature to better define these terms and how best to ensure accountability of investments.
• The Legislature, Governor’s Office, and state agencies (in partnership with the Council) should monitor
where CCA funds are going and any potential unintended consequencesi,ii of the funding, and provide
quarterly updates to the Council. The Council also recommends that the Legislature, Governor’s Office,
and state agencies work in collaboration with the Council to make adjustments if the Cap and Invest
Program or the funding streams create unintended consequences or are not meeting the minimum
percentages.
• The Council recommends that the state conduct systems level mapping (see glossary below) and
studies, as needed, to plan for and mitigate potential unintended consequences (including but not
limited to green gentrification, negative impacts of siting of clean energy infrastructure, etc.), and
allocate funds to this purpose.

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 • The Governor’s Office, the Legislature, and state agencies should continue to work closely with the
Council during and after the 2023 legislative session to ensure that a minimum of 45% of CCA funds to
go to overburdened communities and a minimum of 20% of CCA funds to go to Tribes.iii
• State agencies must ensure that grant processes are structured in a way that they do not replicate
inequitable practices and procedures.iv State agencies should monitor any CCA-funded grants over time
and apply equity-analyses to determine if there are patterns that indicate inequitable outcomes and
update the Council on their findings.
• Ensure the eligible entities for CCA-funded programs and/or grants include but are not limited to non-
profits, churches, small businesses, government, etc.
• The Governor’s Office, the Legislature, and state agencies should continue to work with the Council
where the Council has authority to provide guidance on prioritization of CCA revenues as outlined in
Appendix A.

Account-Specific Recommendations:
1. Carbon Emissions Reduction Account

i. The majority of funds should support frequent accessible public transportation services that is
statewide, convenient, zero emission, reduces health disparities, and improves health by physically
connecting overburdened and vulnerable communities to social determinants/resources such as
housing, education, jobs and job training, food systems, health and human services, early childhood
development, parks and natural resources, community economic development, and community and
public safety. Reduce impact to local businesses in building of this type of transit and do not break up
stable neighborhoods or create unsafe conditions while building the infrastructure. Support
education on carbon emission reduction programs to ensure individuals are aware of the availability
of transportation services and any incentives.

ii. Fund an incentive program and technical assistance and support for conversion of heavy and
medium duty vehicles from gas to zero emission in overburdened communities.v Ensuring that the
additional costs of these vehicles do not flow to the largely immigrant workforce of misclassified
independent contractor drivers.

iii. Fund an incentive program and technical assistance and support for conversion to zero emissions

vehicles for those who are using a primary vehicle for small business write-offs.
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2. Climate Commitment Account (CCA)
i. Prioritize and quickly expedite Tribal assistance for addressing impacts of climate change, the
pollutants impacting Tribal communities and the human and natural resources of Tribes with funding
at the minimum of $50M per biennium.
ii. Community Participatory Climate and Environmental Justice Planning:
a. Set aside funds with generalized guidelines on how they can be spent (that do not exceed the
restrictions already in the CCA) to develop a community participatory budgeting process that
centers racial, social, and economic equity (see glossary below).vi Allocate additional funds to:
a) build community capacity for participation in planning and budgeting, b) adequately resource
the development and administration of a participatory budgeting process, and 3) to ensure the
participatory process includes resources that minimize barriers to participation (including but
not limited to funds for interpretation and translation, community member stipends, food,
childcare or adult care costs, and travel expenses).
b. Funding for the program should build a partnership with applicable agencies to work with the
Council to develop the timeline and process for the community participatory budgeting
program and adequately resource the Council to partner in this work.

iii. Support potential expansions of Working Families Tax Credit

iv. Community and Worker Climate Resilience

a. Develop a grant program for communities to co-design and develop regional urban and rural
Community Climate Resiliency Hubs (see glossary below).
b. Provide worker climate health protections, including: 1) Protective/safety clothing and
equipment for climate health threats to impacted community members including, but not
limited to, farmworkers, food system workers, forest firefighters, and construction workers
and 2) payroll replacement to support worker lost wages due to climate health threats like
heat, smoke, and rising waters.
c. Provide community members highly impacted by climate change (including those who are
experiencing houselessness or living in temporary housing) with funding for mitigation,
adaptation, and relocation.

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 d. Develop an insurance pool or similar permanent financial fund such as a mortgage pool that
provide immediate temporary housing and make it possible for people to get back into their
own home following loses resulting from climate change.

v. Energy Justice Fund

a. Full funding for low-income “home weatherization plus health plus clean electrification,”
including home repair as necessary, including community scale weatherization being piloted by
the Department of Commerce.
b. Funding to prevent utility disconnection for lower income cost burdened households and to
ensure lower income households spend no more than 3% of household income on utilities
c. Fund a study on the short- and long-term sustainability of Washington electrical production to
meet increased demand towards 100% goal for clean home and business energy given removal
of dams and make recommendations which include complimentary clean energy resources
such as solar. The study must engage Tribal leadership.

vi. Food systems/agroecology & green infrastructure identification and implementation funding

v. Workforce

a. Full funding for a Clean Energy Workforce Study.

b. Full funding for creating a Statewide Building Trades Apprenticeship Navigation Program for
Vulnerable Populations and Overburdened Communities.
c. Funding for Nontraditional & extended hour Childcare for the construction industry.
d. Support a transition to retirement for workers impacted by the transition to clean energy at
the end of their careers so that instead of training them for green jobs as they near retirement
they get support to transition into retirement.
e. Fund workforce development and training to expand workforce capacity and knowledge
needed to develop green stormwater infrastructure used to reduce water temperatures.

3. Air Quality and Health Disparities Improvement Account (AQHDIA)

i. Air Quality and Health Disparities Improvement Account be increased to a minimum of $50 M per
biennium.

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 ii. Implement a community driven approach to air quality grants that reflects the priorities of vulnerable
populations and builds capacity to advocate for their needs.
iii. Fully fund air quality monitoring network in in the 2023-25 biennium that provides a block-by-block
understanding of air quality impacts facing rural and urban communities statewide.
iv. Assure that Regional Air Quality Authorities are complying with the State’s Air Quality Initiative,
regulations and implementation for Overburdened Communities and Vulnerable Populations.

4. Natural Climate Solutions Account

i. Equitable urban tree canopy investments

a. Funding for coordination of capital projects and roadway construction projects that help fund
the cost associated with utility relocation so that trees can be planted on otherwise restricted
planting strips.
b. Support of local governments development of a full funded tree maintenance program.
c. Funding for increasing the size of planting strips and without impact to parking and sidewalk
reduction.
ii. Address threat to community rising seas/rivers/water, drought, and lack of potable water.
iii. Identify green infrastructure and implementation.
iv. Protect and restore natural resources that contribute to the diet and health and medicine of
overburdened communities, or order to assure the continued exercise of tribal treaty rights.

a. Protect, restore, and maintain riparian habitat.

b. Protect and restore estuaries, fisheries, and marine shoreline habitats.
c. Prepare for sea level rise including, but not limited to, making fish passage correction
investments, looking specifically into dams and structures that increase water temperature.
d. Increase the ability to remediate and adapt to the impacts of ocean acidification.
e. Increase the sustainable supply of water and improve aquatic habitat.
f. Increase raingardens and stormwater treatment facilities that keep waters cool during
treatment before entering into large bodies of water (e.g., outfalls) during the hotter months.

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Recommendations for the Governor’s Operating Budget
• Fund Department of Health Tribal pre-Consultation activities and statutory-required Consultation on
the Environmental Health Disparities (EHD) Map. The Department of Health must offer Tribal
Consultation and the EHD map shall be updated with Tribal input provided. This is essential as the
current EHD map does not include tribal data (e.g., air quality monitoring) or priorities (e.g., water
quality). The EHD map should not be used to make funding decisions prior to the completion of this
statutory-required consultation with tribal governments and associated updates to the map.
• Fund the Department of Social and Health Services request for Community Assemblies that support
community capacity to identify and advocate for their needs.

Glossary of Terms:
1. Community Participatory Budgeting: A democratic process where community members decide how to
spend allocated public funding.
2. Community Climate Resiliency Hubs: Community centers, schools, libraries, churches, etc. that are
easily accessible to community members that meet the climate-resilience needs identified by the
community. A hub could, for example, include smoke relief centers, heating and cooling centers,
evacuation shelters, etc.
3. Systems Level Mapping: Diagrams that map out how various systems are interconnected to
demonstrate and explore the potential pathways for how a policy or funding decision can have impacts
in areas that may at fist seem unrelated.

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“Green gentrification,” the influx of wealthier new residents to previously low-income neighborhoods following greening initiatives
and investments in those neighborhoods, has been documented in cities all over the world, including in the U.S. Green gentrification
can drive up housing costs and displace low-income residents, especially renters. Research shows that green gentrification has
complex interactions with human health and health equity. See Jelks NO, Jennings V, Rigolon A. Green Gentrification and Health: A
Scoping Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(3):907.
ii
Resources needed for clean energy, such as mining of lithium for batteries and citing for wind and solar projects, runs the risk of
impacting the sovereignty, health, and cultural resources of Indigenous people. For example, the Paiute and Shoshone Tribes have
vocally opposed the Thacker Pass lithium mine in Nevada due to concerns about the risk to air and water quality, access to
traditional foods and medicines, and the likely impacts to sacred sites. See Native News Online. Voices From the Tribes: Paiute,
Shoshone Elders’ Perspectives on Nevada Lithium Mine Proposal. Available from https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/voices-from-
the-tribes-paiute-shoshone-elders-perspectives-on-the-nevada-lithium-mine-
proposal#:~:text=For%20centuries%2C%20the%20area%20has%20been%20used%20by,Pass%20holds%20an%20important%20histo
ry%20for%20the%20tribe. 2021.

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iii
The Council believes that these higher percentage goals are feasible given data from California showing that, conservatively, 48%
the California Cap and Trade Program auction proceeds have consistently been distributed to " disadvantaged communities and low-
income communities and households, collectively referred to as priority populations.” See California Climate Investments. What are
Priority Populations. Available at https://www.caclimateinvestments.ca.gov/priority-populations. Accessed November 11, 2022.
iv
Grant programs often inequitably distribute grant funds with funds never reaching the communities that most need the resources.
As one example, a recent analysis of Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office grants identified several equity issues
such as grants skewing toward places with pre-existing parks and conservation land, underinvestment in Black, Indigenous and
Communities of Color by most grant programs, and a lack of granting to areas with low park and green space acreage. The report
also includes recommendations to address these granting inequities. Prevention Institute. Equitable Grantmaking: A Comprehensive
Review of Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office Grant Programs. Available at https://app.leg.wa.gov
/ReportsToTheLegislature/Home/GetPDF?fileName=Final%20RCO%20grants%20equity%20review%20proviso%20report_0e194323-
eb36-4a9f-ba0b-881d9602636a.pdf. 2022.
v
For example, communities near Washington’s ports experience high concentrations of air pollutants leading to environmental and
health disparities. See Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy 2020 Progress Report at page 15. NWPCAS 2020 Progress Report-FINAL
.pdf (portseattle.org). 2021.
vi
Many local jurisdictions, including those in Washington State, have successfully allocated funds through community participatory
funding. Jurisdictions in Washington such as Seattle and Tacoma are currently working to allocate millions of dollars through
participatory budgeting. These processes ensure projects are relevant and informed by community needs and priorities. See, for
example, National Association of County and City Health Officials. Innovation Snapshots #4: Participatory Budgeting. Innovation-
Snapshot-4-Budgeting.pdf (naccho.org). 2021; Seattle Office of Civil Rights webpage. Seattle’s Participatory Budgeting Process.
Available at Seattle's Participatory Budgeting Process - CivilRights | seattle.gov. Accessed November 11, 2022.

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 Climate Commitment Act Auction Revenues - Accounts
Carbon Emissions Reduction Account (CERA) Climate Investment Account (CIA) Air Quality and Health
CERA funds largely allocated already through Move Ahead Washington (transportation budget) and will go out Disparities Improvement
through 1) formula directly to eligible recipients, 2) competitive grant programs, and 3) “earmarked” funding to Account (AQHDIA)
go to projects listed out by the Legislature
20% stays in CERA 24% to 56% to Administrative 75% of 25% of Funding intent in statute is
Climate Active Climate Transit Programs costs and remaining funds remaining funds $20M/biennium
Transportation Account Account Tribal capacity to Climate to Natural
grants Commitment Climate
Account Solutions
Account
Mechanisms for Council Input: Mechanisms for Council Input (see WSDOT memo): Notes: Mechanisms for Council Input: Mechanisms for Council
Now: Guidance to the Governor’s Office and OFM by Now: Guidance to WSDOT on transit and active A max of 5% Now: Guidance to Governor’s Input:
November 15, 2022 on what programs to prioritize transportation proposed projects lists to fund (lists due can be used to Office and OFM by November 15, Now: Guidance to
funding with the a) State and Local De-Carbonization from WSDOT to Legislature by December 1, 2022) administer the 2022 to inform Governor’s budget Governor’s Office and OFM
Projects and b) Carbon Emissions Reduction Local Grants. Cap and Invest by November 15 to inform
The annual amount for the State and Local De- During Session: Guidance to Legislature throughout 2023 Program During Session: Guidance to Governor’s budget
Carbonization Projects is about $24.5 million and the session as they make final decisions on transit and active Legislature throughout 2023
annual amount for the Carbon Emissions Reduction transportation investments for the 2023-25 biennium Tribal capacity session to inform House, Senate, During Session: Guidance to
Grants is $7.8 million (still verifying amounts with OFM) grants are also and final budget Legislature throughout 2023
After Session: Guidance to agencies and Governor’s Office funded before session to inform House,
During Session: Guidance to Legislature throughout 2023 after 2023 session on any grant or formula programs the remaining After Session: Guidance to Senate, and final budget
session to inform House, Senate, and final budget funded during session funds are agencies and Governor’s Office
allocated after 2023 session on any grant After Session: Guidance to
After Session: Guidance to agencies and Governor’s programs funded during session agencies and Governor’s
Office after 2023 session on the grant programs funded After Session: Guidance to WSDOT in Summer/Fall of 2023 Office after 2023 session on
during session on how to improve transit and active transportation any grant programs funded
programs (then regular guidance each biennium) during session
After Session: Guidance to WSDOT on the Move Ahead
Washington ferry electrification and passenger rail
investments, engagement would begin in 2023 and
continue over time as needed

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 Written Public Comments
From: Mary Jean Ryan
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 9:22 AM
To: DOH EPH OEPHS Environmental Justice <envjustice@ejc.wa.gov>
Cc:
Subject: Public Comments for EJC Meeting Today

External Email
Good morning—

My name is Mary Jean Ryan. I live in Quilcene, WA. I am a volunteer activist working on forest conservation and rural
community health. My specific conservation focus is on State managed forests. Given the climate crisis and the role that
older forests play in climate protection, we are working to get the State DNR to stop clearcutting the remaining older,
structurally complex forests that are among the best in the world in terms of carbon storage and sequestration. We are
also interested in expanding forest cover and healthy forests in and near overburdened communities.

I am sorry I cannot be there in person today for your meeting. I applaud the work you are doing. It is a very exciting
opportunity to make significant progress toward the State’s climate goals and to address the needs and opportunities in
overburdened communities- both urban and rural. The CCA language as relates to the NCS Account lists out a number of
eligible uses which include healthy forest investments, preventing emissions by preserving natural and working lands
from the threat of conversion or loss of critical habitat, creation of new conservation lands etc etc I see a number of
ways that the NCS Account could advance these objectives and look forward to further discussions with you about these
emerging ideas.

I respectfully request that you consider adding to your NCS Account list of recommendations:

Increase climate and habitat protection by protecting and restoring older, carbon dense forests managed by the State of
Washington

Increase climate protection by expanding healthy forests in and near overburdened communities- urban and rural

Thank so much for your consideration and for all your work!

Sincerely,
Mary Jean Ryan

Volunteer with the Washington State Lands Working Group

Volunteer with the Center for Responsible Forestry

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From: Shaun Glaze
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 11:59 AM
To: DOH EPH OEPHS Environmental Justice <envjustice@ejc.wa.gov>
Cc: Patricia Davis
Subject: Public Comment for EJC PLUS action requested for Community Reinvestment Plan

External Email
Hi EJC,

Thanks for today's meeting! I'm working on projects that have been meeting with community members about their
priorities, as it pertains to your council. (please see bolded text below for a requested action) There are a few
comments I want to surface for your team:
1. For economic development, we're hearing that many community members are interested in making sure that
skills people learn in forestry and fighting fires to be translated into strong career pathways upon release
from incarceration. This includes having priority hire in decisions in their local conservation and fire
responder work in community settings.
2. We're hearing many people speak to violence prevention and intervention programs that are focused on
environmental justice. This includes youth programming that is outdoors or that reconnections communities
with their relationships with nature in green spaces and farming applications.
3. We're hearing concerns about the built environment and Black, Indigenous, and Latinx communities not
having enough access to green spaces - or that there aren't parks or places added to community until
gentrification is already underway, people want to see more investment before that happens and for there to
be support in cleaning up the pollution that is affecting their lives.
4. We're hearing about the importance of there being robust support for green jobs that explicitly position
Black, Indigenous, and Latinx communities an opportunity to work as workers or start their own businesses
in this space. I've heard concerns that "green jobs" will come to be a way of saying "white jobs", which is
unfortunate and avoidable - since everyone can be a part of creating a green economy. We're hearing there
need to be earmarked and set-asides that explicitly recruit for these communities in order for people to feel
empowered to apply. We need to see a budget that is explicit about funding for programs that increase
worker and supplier diversity.
5. Communities are adamant about there being more support for transportation infrastructure that has an
environmental and racial justice lens. This means that there need to be programs that are explicit about how
to reconnect communities that were intentionally harmed by transportation infrastructure - which is
consistent with what's happening at the federal level. WA can be more of a leader here by being specific
about addressing harm caused by previous transportation investments.
6. Reentry groups are interested in being a partner in helping folks get more green jobs, but need more support
from the State on how to do that - a central website that interfaces with reentry-specific considerations would
go a long way.

I'd love to invite all of you, as well, to participate in the WA Community Reinvestment plan (http://WA-Reinvest.com.
It's going to reinvest $200M into the community to address the harms caused by the War On Drugs. We've been
meeting with stakeholders such as yourselves and community members directly through virtual and in-person
meetings, phone calls, text messages, and our website.

Action requested: Please, will you consider answering our survey on our website? https://wa-
reinvest.com/ or filling out this text-based questionnaire.

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COMMERCE hired a consulting group (Harriet Tubman Foundation For Safe Passage) to develop a plan and
engage in consultation and facilitation, stakeholder engagement and empowerment, and primary and
secondary research and analysis. At a minimum, the plan must address how the community reinvestment
account funding will:

● Produce significant long-term economic benefits

● Not require continuing state support
● Not supplant private investment
● Accompany additional public or private investment
● Prioritize nonprofit, faith-based, and grassroots organizations for funding

Happy to connect with your office more directly about our project - wanted to offer what we've heard to
help you with the next steps you're intending to take as the budget gets more finalized.

Shaun
Shaun Glaze (they/them)

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From: john worthington

Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2022 9:52 AM

To: DOH EPH OEPHS Environmental Justice <envjustice@ejc.wa.gov>
Subject: Universal climate change equity comments

External Email
Hello,

I am John Worthington from Sequim and a former resident of Port Angeles who is downwind from Port
Angeles.

Because Worthington alleged violations of laws during the administrative process and is near to and very well
may be a resident of Port Angeles in the future, Worthington claims standing to challenge the Climate
Resiliency Implementation Plan and the Port Angeles Comprehensive plan. Worthington also alleges he has
participation standing because it is a matter of record that he testified against the use of “clear path” and
Cascadia Group because they were going to pursue a “flubber and magic bean formula.”. Worthington also
alleges organizational standing having reserved the organization “Save PA” with the Washington State
Secretary of State’s office.

Worthington opposes the adoption of agenda item I. 1 as shown below:

I. Other Considerations 1. Climate Resiliency Implementation Plan Adopt........................................ I-1
Worthington opposes all Washington State climate change, equity and growth management plans.
General opposition summary:
Clear Path does not achieve a proper climate resiliency because:
1. Clear Path and Cascadia Group did not properly track the international shipping and trucking GHG
Inventory of Port Angeles. It is estimated that Port Angeles obtains over 72 percent of its agriculture and
manufacturing from as far as 8,000 miles away from the “World Economy.” The emission from this
international process is a measurable amount which far exceeds the local and regional emissions which is the
only process tracked during the scoping process. The “world economy” process does not come close to
proportionately paying user fees to discourage use in the same fashion as local and regional process. In fact,
World economy emissions is completely exempt from any emissions accountability under any comprehensive
plan or addendums to those plans including the City of Port Angeles despite the fact those emissions far and
away exceed those of the local and regional process. The Port Angeles Climate Resiliency Implementation Plan
does nothing to mitigate the “world economy” emissions which are now at catastrophic levels. Due to the
prevailing gulf stream Worthington is negatively affected by the Port Angeles Climate Resiliency
Implementation Plan and Port Angeles comprehensive plan. The EPA requires extensive indirect 3 scoping
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(Emissions from outside sources) by industrial processes who's indirect GHG inventory from outside sources
makes up the majority of the GHG inventory. In this case, that is the "world economy" shipping. If Port Angeles
was an industry being held to proper GHG scoping standards, the current climate resiliency plan would not be
passable in its current form. Furthermore, the plan does not "centralize economic activity." It never will. It will
always be a tool to create more capacity for third world countries.
2. The public has not observed the total thought process used by Cascadia Group nor have they viewed any
referenced or unreferenced materials sent to ICLEI and then forwarded to Cascadia Group via circulars and
webinars found. They have also not viewed any immigration policy statements. (Being better neighbors being
better connected” encourage foreign investment.) Worthington was required to seek information from
elsewhere which illustrated a clear preference for the ICLEI and the “world economy” to “build capacity’ for
third world countries. This is found in the initial agenda 21, and the following local agenda 21 to which ICLEI
supported. Local agenda 21 clearly states it is a form of equity to allow “transfer of power to people of color.”
This is discrimination.
3. The City of Port Angeles violated state and federal treason laws and the delegation doctrine by letting an
International sphere of government and its agent Cascadia Group to take over the Comprehensive plan by
letting them have access the Port Angeles ICLEI member login to conduct the business of the people. The
"delegation doctrine" prohibits delegation of legislative authority to a Non legislative branch of government.
See WASH. CONST. art. II, § 1; Sackett v. Santilli, 146 Wn.2d 498, 504, 47 P.3d 948 (2002). With that illegal
delegation, Cascadia Group effectively shielded the international, equity and immigration or other policy
influence from the view of those persons like Worthington from watching an open process to track the
process of the development of the Comprehensive plan and any addendums. The City Council has no idea
what it is they are adopting. They have not properly reviewed the ICLEI Charter, bylaws or any previous
documentation ICLEI has released. The City Attorney has not viewed these documents and the City of Port
Angeles is blind to the pronounced ulterior motives of ICLEI, C40 and the other special interest groups whose
policy desires float about in the ICLEI circulars and webinars. Port Angeles has been effectively hijacked by the
international contracts favorable to the “world economy” and the catastrophic amounts of emissions it
creates. The City Attorney has also not viewed any documents to transfer power to people of color. The plan
clearly lists a transfer of power to tribes and other groups of color with stated goals to use a false equity
narrative that overstates the harm to people of color while they simultaneously plot to transfer power to
them. The emissions from the ‘world economy” found in the prevailing jet stream has absolutely no chance to
disproportionately effect people of color over white people. This is just a lie used to justify transferring power
to people of color and to improperly focus on American process to punish America for the benefit of the
“world economy” under the guise of climate change while creating a growing and catastrophic clime
emergency caused by International shipping.
4. The Port Angeles Planning Commission has admitted they did not consider the emissions from the "world
economy" and at least one member incorrectly stated that the clear path was not ”political” without knowing
what Cascadia used through ICLEI to obtain its GHG Inventory and why. After making these statements the
member openly stated the emissions from all sources should be tracked. For that reason alone, the plan
should be rejected. The rest of the committee focuses on a tree canopy rather than any emissions from a
“world economy” restoring a tree canopy to a time when fewer people lived here is a dead giveaway to the
stated goal of Agenda 21 to reduce human population. The commission wants tribal and special interest
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control. The commission wants to let tribes restore the natural balance while using modern technology to
harvest that old natural process without reducing the shortie catches or using technology to store stormwater
to alleviate summer drought and water restrictions. Man has been a natural part of the world too. His
technology can make up for its existence if given a chance. . The commission has not suggested anything to
save all races from the emissions of the “world economy” nor have they attempted to consider any cap-and-
trade formula involving local and regional agriculture and manufacturing to reduce the catastrophic levels of
emissions from the world economy. The growth management plan is bereft of local agriculture and
manufacturing goals. Its main goal is to ordinance control over the city center to obtain a transfer of power to
the tribes, push transit service agency bumps and urban population increases.

5. The plan violates RCW 47.80.026 because it does not "concentrate economic activity." The plan continues
the trend of hampering local and regional process while forcing that activity to the "world economy" who does
not face local and regional environmental scrutiny. Since the ICLEI and "local agenda 21" have been initiated in
1991, the "world economy" emissions has exploded to catastrophic levels.

Comprehensive plans, transportation guidelines, and principles.

Each regional transportation planning organization, with cooperation from component cities, towns,
and counties, shall establish guidelines and principles by July 1, 1995, that provide specific direction for the
development and evaluation of the transportation elements of comprehensive plans, where such plans exist,
and to assure that state, regional, and local goals for the development of transportation systems are met.
These guidelines and principles shall address at a minimum the relationship between transportation systems
and the following factors: Concentration of economic activity, residential density, development corridors and
urban design that, where appropriate, supports high capacity transit, freight transportation and port access,
development patterns that promote pedestrian and nonmotorized transportation, circulation systems, access
to regional systems, effective and efficient highway systems, the ability of transportation facilities and
programs to retain existing and attract new jobs and private investment and to accommodate growth in
demand, transportation demand management, joint and mixed use developments, present and future railroad
right-of-way corridor utilization, and intermodal connections.

Examples shall be published by the organization to assist local governments in interpreting and explaining the
requirements of this section.

6. The building and fleet suggestions are the only sections worth retention.

Thanks
John Worthington

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