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VOL. 105, NO. 35
November ballot will include 'warning labels' for initiatives
By Carleen Johnson The Center Square
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Washington truckers warn California emissions policy threatens supply chain By TJ Martinell The Center Square
The state trucking industry is calling on the Legislature and Gov. Jay Inslee to detach Washington state from a California-based electric vehicle program due to a variety of practical and logistical factors that they argue threaten the supply chain system. Under California’s Advanced Clean Trucks program, the trucking industry must progressively transition to zero
emissions for medium and heavy-duty trucks. Starting next year, zero emission vehicles must make up 7% of all Class 2b-3 truck and Class 7-8 tractor sales, while Class 4-8 truck sales must be 11% zero emission vehicles. By 2030, the sales percentages will need to be 30% for Class 2b-3 trucks and Class 7-8 tractors, and 50% for Class 4-8 trucks. Washington Trucking Associations President Sheri Call wrote in an Aug. 15 letter to Inslee expressing concerns
about “vehicle costs, operational challenges, and low to nonexistent vehicle adoption. We feel these issues will place constraints on the industry and reduce supply chain resiliency in Washington state – one of the most trade-dependent states in the nation.” Noting that the buying cycle for trucks can be as long as two years, “owners are placing orders for model year 2025 and beyond today” and “prompting
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The battle over what will be printed on ballots for four statewide initiatives has ended, at least for this election season. The final blow came late Thursday, when Tim Eyman was informed there would be no Friday morning hearing for his attempt to block what initiative supporters call "warning labels" on the ballot measures. “Democrats passed this law in 2022, and it says we’re going to let the attorney general insert a sentence into the neutrally worded ballot title for any initiative that could impact tax revenue for the state,” said Eyman in an interview with The Center Square Friday morning. The law requires disclosure statements of 15 words or less be placed on ballots if a measure repeals, levies or modifies a tax or fee, and if it would cause a net change in state revenue. “It’s supposed to be just for initiatives that impact taxes, not for all initiatives,” argued Eyman. “The sentence is mandated to say-this measure would decrease funding for-then the AG gets to add words to describe which programs are earmarked for that tax.” For the capital gains repeal initiative, ballots will include the AG’s language saying the measure will reduce funding for K-12 education, childcare and school construction. Eyman contends that the additions are meant to sway voters to vote against the measures. “We knew in March this year, with three initiatives heading to the ballot, there would be these sabotage sentences included,” said Eyman. Initiative sponsor Rep, Jim Walsh, R-Aberdeen, filed suit in Thurston County Superior Court in June. The judge rejected those arguments, but Walsh and company asked the WA Supreme Court to take the case up directly because the secretary of state’s office had said it needed to BALLOT, Page 3 Æ