Washington in 2021 passed the Climate Commitment Act, which put a price tag on greenhouse-gas emissions. Fuel refineries are the biggest producers of such emissions.
The goal of the act is to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
Since it was passed, the state has used auction proceeds to begin construction on 575 new electric-vehicle charging sites, containing 5,780 new charging ports. Of those, 3,100 chargers are to be installed in apartment complexes around the state, the Department of Commerce said.
Charging stations have been built from Newport on the Idaho border to Pacific County on the coast.
The vast majority were so-called Level 2 ports, which require up to eight
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