Big Labor Caves, Supports PA Gov’s Marcellus-Killing Carbon Tax

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro traveled to Scranton, PA, in mid-March to announce a proposal to “immediately pull Pennsylvania out of a multi-state carbon cap-and-trade program” (the so-called Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI) and instead enroll PA in its very own RGGI-like carbon tax program (see PA Gov. Shapiro Proposes Own Version of Marcellus-Killing Carbon Tax). Same end result: Shapiro’s plan would kill Marcellus-fired power plants in the state, driving them to close and relocate to West Virginia and Ohio, states that don’t engage in the lunacy of taxing carbon emissions from power plants. Unfortunately, Shapiro's offers of bribes, er, "investments" for Big Labor, were enough to keep Big Labor in the back pocket of the Democrat Party, supporting Shapiro's terrible carbon tax.

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