The Environmental Quality Board voted 15-4 Tuesday to adopt the final regulation that would have Pennsylvania join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cap-and-trade program that targets carbon dioxide emissions in the power sector. The new rule is now headed to an independent regulatory review commission and attorney generals office before final approval. This would place Pennsylvania joining RGGI sometime in 2022.There is most likely going to be legal trouble, and the state senate/house is yet again passing a bill that would require their approval to join the program. Governor Wolf has already vetoed two similar bills. Pennsylvania would be the first major fossil fuel producing state to join RGGI.
Rachel McDevitt, "Board Approves RGGI Rule, Moving Pa. a Step Closer to Joining Carbon Emissions Program", contributed by Andrew Rosenthal, The Energy Rights Project, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 23 August 2022, accessed 17 April 2024. https://energyrights.info/content/board-approves-rggi-rule-moving-pa-step-closer-joining-carbon-emissions-program
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The Environmental Quality Board voted 15-4 Tuesday to adopt the final regulation that would have Pennsylvania join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cap-and-trade program that targets carbon dioxide emissions in the power sector. The new rule is now headed to an independent regulatory review commission and attorney generals office before final approval. This would place Pennsylvania joining RGGI sometime in 2022.There is most likely going to be legal trouble, and the state senate/house is yet again passing a bill that would require their approval to join the program. Governor Wolf has already vetoed two similar bills. Pennsylvania would be the first major fossil fuel producing state to join RGGI.