Pa. must reduce carbon pollution

What is RGGI?

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is a bipartisan regional program started in 2008 that works by setting caps on pollution from power plants and reducing those caps each year and requires power plant owners to pay for their pollution. This incentivizes them to cut their carbon pollution; to date RGGI has raised over 1.3 billion dollars in the participating states for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects that creates thousands of jobs and improves the health of our communities.

Don’t let climate change deniers and industry groups set the agenda and keep us from joining meaningful programs to work collaboratively with other states to tackle climate pollution in Pennsylvania.

Gov. Wolf has initiated the process of joining RGGI, the nation’s most effective program for cutting climate pollution currently in effect. However two legislators from Indiana County have introduced House Bill 2025 with 80 cosponsors from both sides to strip Gov. Wolf’s ability to use his regulatory authority to join RGGI to reduce CO2 pollution from dirty power plants.

Please call your state legislators and let them know that you support RGGI and want them to be outspoken in their advocacy for joining the program.

—Mary Ann Mack,

Phoenixville