Shapiro DEP Blowing $396M of Federal $$ to “Reduce Energy Costs”

Corporate welfare---the transfer of taxpayers' money to businesses---is ugly, no matter if the money goes to large or small businesses. True to form, Pennsylvania's Democrat Governor, Josh Shapiro, and his political operative at the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), "Acting" Secretary Jessica Shirley, yesterday launched a program to try and spread nearly half a billion dollars of taxpayer's money from the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act (Biden's Green New Scam) to businesses large and small in the Keystone State. They euphemistically call the program RISE PA (Reducing Industrial Sector Emissions in Pennsylvania). It should be called "Spread Taxpayer Dollars to Buy Votes" (STD BV).

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