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Organizers of an effort to repeal the 2021 Climate Commitment Act collected enough signatures to move forward toward the November ballot, the Secretary of State’s Office announced Tuesday, checking another box for the Republican-backed measure. The act, Washington’s landmark climate change policy, requires the state’s top polluters to pay for their greenhouse gas emissions by buying allowances at quarterly auctions, which began last year. So far the auctions have raised an estimated $1.8 billion. The repeal effort, Initiative 2117, will now go to the state Legislature, which could adopt it int…