PA Adopts Carbon Tax, Publishing Final RGGI Reg in Apr 23 Bulletin
It’s a sad day in Pennsylvania. Gov. Tom Wolf and his patsy at the Dept. of Environmental Protection, Sec. Pat McDonnell, have finally prevailed and will publish a final version of new regulations forcing the state to join the so-called Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)–a carbon tax that is about to unleash economic hell on PA. The final step before RGGI, a $2.6 billion tax on PA’s electric ratepayers over the next ten years, becomes a defacto new law is for the final version of the regulation to be published in the Pennsylvania Register. Tomorrow’s edition will carry the RGGI regulation (full preview copy below).
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Has there been a more dysfunctional White House than the Biden White House…ever? No, there hasn’t. While Joe Biden mouths words (that someone has written for him, appearing on a teleprompter) supporting natural gas and encouraging more natgas exports to help Europe, the Biden EPA and others in the administration (see today’s story about the haughty John Kerry) attack natural gas, calling for programs to phase out its use here in the United States. We’ve given up trying to understand psychotic leftists. There is no understanding and reconciling “drill more to help our allies” with “but we’re going to ban its use here at home.”
In a new attack from the Bidenistas, the haughty John F. Kerry (the definition of a D.C. swamp dweller) threatened the entire natural gas industry in an interview yesterday with his fellow lefties at Bloomberg. The uber-arrogant Kerry put the natural gas industry “on notice” that it has a maximum of 10 years to figure out how to trap every last molecule of escaping methane and every last molecule of carbon dioxide post-combustion–or the industry will suffer a total and sudden death. The political intelligentsia will demand the execution of natgas (maybe even those who extract and flow it) no later than 10 years from now. According to Kerry, this is how it works in Amerika, land of the enslaved and home of the coward.
Bloom Energy, a provider of fuel cells that convert natural gas (or biogas, or hydrogen) into electricity without combustion, meaning no carbon dioxide emissions, has signed a two-year deal to buy all of its natural gas to power fuel cells at some 700 locations from EQT. But it’s not just any natural gas Bloom is buying–it’s EQT’s certified responsible natural gas. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Yesterday MDN friend Joe Barone from 
Today is the annual day when environmental wackos demand fealty to Mother Earth. You WILL bow down and worship the creation (instead of the Creator), or risk being excommunicated from polite company. We thumb our noses at Earth Day worshipers and declare our love for the miracle of fossil energy on this Earth Day. We invite you to join us in celebrating the greatest invention of mankind–fossil fuels.
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