VICTORY! PA Budget Deal Kills RGGI Carbon Tax for Good

For seven looooooong years, Pennsylvania Senate Republicans (and MDN, we modestly add) have fought against enrolling the Keystone State in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) carbon tax scheme. RGGI taxes gas- and coal-fired power plants, charging them so much per ton of carbon dioxide emitted. The aim is to eliminate these sources and replace them with unreliable renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar. PA's former failed Governor, Tom Wolf, tried to force the state to join RGGI via an executive order (see Gov. Wolf Goes Bonkers: EO Destroying Gas-Fired Elec, Carbon Tax). His failed replacement, Josh Shapiro, also tried to force the state into the compact (see PA Gov. Shapiro Proves He’s Radical Left – Appeals RGGI Decision). As of yesterday, with a newly passed and adopted budget deal (four months late), RGGI is now permanently gone, never to be resurrected. It is a complete and total victory for brave Senate Republicans who held the line. Hats off!

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