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Pennsylvania's natural gas industry and its power generation industry are closely tied together. What happens in one directly and profoundly affects what happens in the other. Why? Because a majority of PA's electricity is generated by Marcellus natural gas (see the chart at left). Gov. Tom Wolf thinks he can force the state to join the so-called Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI, or Reggie as it's pronounced) to raise $2.36 billion he can give away. RGGI is a tax on carbon, a tax on gas-fired (and coal-fired) power generation. It will effectively kill the Marcellus-fired generation in the state, and in turn, severely wound the entire Marcellus industry that depends on selling its gas to power generators.
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