Update on Virginia’s Progress in Exiting Costly RGGI Carbon Tax

In early December, Virginia’s newly-elected governor, Glenn Youngkin, said that as soon as he took office he would use his executive power to withdraw Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (see VA’s New Republican Gov Pledges to Cancel RGGI Carbon Tax). RGGI is an obscene, very expensive carbon tax on coal- and gas-fired power plants. Youngkin’s pledge was a nice sentiment from someone not yet in office. Since taking office, Virginia’s leftist Attorney General told Youngkin the law does not permit the governor to use an executive order to undo a legislative action (see Va. Gov. Youngkin Can’t Use Exec Order to Block RGGI Carbon Tax). Where do things stand? And how much progress has Youngkin made in removing Virginia from this odious tax?

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