Bill addresses farm fuel exemption

When the Democrat-led Legislature passed the Climate Commitment Act (other opponents and I prefer to call it “cap-and-tax”) a few years ago, one of the promises made by Democrats was that the state’s agriculture, shipping and aviation industries would be exempt from the fuel tax created under the law. However, as farmers in the 9th District can tell you, that promise has not been kept.

Despite numerous meetings and repeated requests by me and other Eastern Washington legislators for the state Department of Ecology to implement the promised exemption from this costly fuel surcharge, DOE failed...