(The Center Square) – Washington residents and businesses reliant on Puget Sound Energy, the state’s largest utility provider, for natural gas could have it discontinued under a revised version of a bill that cleared the state House of Representatives last month.

House Bill 1589 introduced last year by Rep. Beth Doglio, D-Olympia, would have had PSE barred from offering natural gas to new residential or commercial buildings starting in July 2023 and guaranteed the utility a certain ownership percentage of its clean energy portfolio.