PA GOP Lawmakers Say Governor’s Carbon Tax Scheme “Dead on Arrival”

Last week, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro traveled to Scranton, PA, to do a dog-and-pony show announcing his personalized version of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) carbon tax that would apply only to PA (see PA Gov. Shapiro Proposes Own Version of Marcellus-Killing Carbon Tax). Shapiro calls it PACER, the Pennsylvania Climate Emissions Reduction Act. PACER would do what RGGI does --- slap a huge tax on gas-fired power plants because they burn methane that gets converted into carbon dioxide (the stuff you breathe out with every breath). Republican legislators are saying Shapiro's carbon tax is "dead on arrival."

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