Description: Challenge to Seattle municipal utility's contracts with public and private entities to offset the utility's greenhouse gas emissions.
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Okeson v. City of Seattle
Case Documents:
Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 01/18/2007 Opinion Opinion issued reversing trial court's order granting summary judgment to Seattle. The Washington Supreme Court held that the municipal utility "lacked authority to use ratepayer money for the [greenhouse gas] offset contracts because they are neither proprietary in nature nor sufficiently related to the purpose of supplying electricity."