In 2021 as he was running for the office of Governor in Virginia, Glenn Youngkin pledged if he won, he would remove the state from the onerous carbon tax on coal- and gas-fired power plants called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). True to his word, after winning, Younkin pledged to ax RGGI with an executive order (see VA’s New Republican Gov Pledges to Cancel RGGI Carbon Tax). But then Virginia’s Democrat Attorney General declared Younkin could not just use an executive order to remove the state from RGGI (see Va. Gov. Youngkin Can’t Use Exec Order to Block RGGI Carbon Tax). It’s taken over a year, but Youngkin is now on the verge of keeping his RGGI promise following a vote by the Va. Air Pollution Control Board.
In 2021 as he was running for the office of Governor in Virginia, Glenn Youngkin pledged if he won, he would remove the state from the onerous carbon tax on coal- and gas-fired power plants called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). True to his word, after winning, Younkin pledged to ax RGGI with an executive order (see 