Republicans Say PA Gov. Shapiro’s Proposed Carbon Tax is Dead

In March, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro traveled to Scranton, PA, 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: It would kill Marcellus-fired power plants in the state, forcing 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. Here's a spot of good news: With less than a week before the June 30 budget deadline, Republican sources tell the Delaware Valley Journal there are no plans for hearings or votes on Shapiro’s crazy carbon tax plan. Whew. We dodged another bullet.

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