Heinz, William Penn the Money Behind PA’s RGGI Carbon Tax Push

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Two Pennsylvania-based nonprofit foundations that actively seek to end the use of fossil fuels–the Heinz Endowments and the William Penn Foundation–have been outed as the groups financing the push for a Marcellus-killing carbon tax in the state called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Will anyone notice and will anyone care that these massive, tax-exempt organizations are engaged in overt politicking (by funding political green groups), in violation of federal and state law? Probably not.

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