PT Air Watchers v. Department of Ecology

¶1 In this case, we are asked to consider whether the Department of Ecology, in determining that no environmental impact statement (EIS) was necessary for a proposed energy cogeneration project, failed to adequately consider the effects of carbon dioxide emissions and demand for woody biomass1 from the state’s forests. We are also asked to consider whether the project is exempt from the EIS requirement as part of an energy recovery facility that existed before January 1, 1989. Ecology adequately reviewed the relevant information in determining that the project would not have significant…