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     "derivation": "Sum over all rows for the year",
     "sourceIds": [
      "ecology-large-emitters"
     ]
    },
    {
     "name": "reporters",
     "type": "integer",
     "description": "Number of reporting rows",
     "units": null,
     "nullable": false,
     "valueType": "observed",
     "derivation": null,
     "sourceIds": [
      "ecology-large-emitters"
     ]
    },
    {
     "name": "scope",
     "type": "string",
     "description": "Which kinds of reporters are included",
     "units": null,
     "nullable": false,
     "valueType": "observed",
     "derivation": null,
     "sourceIds": [
      "ecology-large-emitters"
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "replications": [
  {
   "id": "wpc-gap",
   "analysisId": "gap-2022",
   "externalSourceId": "wpc-myers-2026",
   "externalLocator": "Paragraph beginning \"By 2022, Washington's emissions should have been about 85\"",
   "externalValue": 13.4,
   "facthubValue": 13.4,
   "unit": "percent above path in 2022",
   "note": "Same result: WPC's about 85 MMT matches the straight line between the 2020 and 2030 limits (84.71 MMT)."
  },
  {
   "id": "wpc-needed-cut-2024",
   "analysisId": "required-cut",
   "externalSourceId": "wpc-myers-2026",
   "externalLocator": "Paragraph beginning \"It gets worse\"",
   "externalValue": 7.4,
   "facthubValue": 7.58,
   "unit": "percent per year, 2025-2030",
   "note": "WPC's figure matches the equal-steps measure (7.5-7.6% of the 2024 level a year). Measured as a compounded rate, the pace is higher, 9.5-9.6% a year."
  },
  {
   "id": "ecology-total-drop",
   "analysisId": "sector-change-2021-2022",
   "externalSourceId": "ecology-release-2026-04-24",
   "externalLocator": "First paragraph",
   "externalValue": -0.5,
   "facthubValue": -0.48,
   "unit": "percent change, 2021 to 2022",
   "note": "Ecology rounds to 0.5%."
  },
  {
   "id": "ecology-large-emitter-2024",
   "analysisId": "large-emitter-2022-2024",
   "externalSourceId": "ecology-tracking-page",
   "externalLocator": "Leading indicator paragraph",
   "externalValue": -0.45,
   "facthubValue": -0.45,
   "unit": "percent change, 2023 to 2024",
   "note": "Our yearly sums of data.wa.gov idhm-59de reproduce Ecology's figure (90.79 to 90.38 MMT)."
  }
 ],
 "limitations": [
  "The inventory ends in 2022. 2023 and 2024 values here are estimates from large-emitter reports, which use different coverage and methods.",
  "The statute sets only limits for 2020, 2030, 2040 and 2050. Any path between them is an analytical choice; several are shown.",
  "Ecology sets the 1990 baseline at 93.1 MMT under current methods, while the statute also names fixed tonnages (90.5 MMT for 2020, 50 MMT for 2030). Both readings are shown.",
  "The electricity sector is consumption-based (power bought by Washington utilities, including imports); all other sectors are production-based estimates, mostly downscaled from national data by EPA's State Inventory Tool.",
  "Changes in power sources from one year to the next are descriptive; they do not split the emissions change among causes."
 ]
}