State Representative Jim Struzzi will introduce a bill to the Environmental Resources and Energy Committee connected with Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s actions to force the state to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, better known as RGGI.
House Bill 637 would authorize the State Department of Environmental Protection to conduct a public comment process on and submit to the general assembly a measure or action intended to either “abate, control or limit carbon dioxide emissions by imposing a revenue-generating tax or fee on carbon dioxide emissions.”
Struzzi said the bill’s aim is to put RGGI through the state legislature so that it can be properly vetted.
Struzzi, along with State Senator Joe Pittman, have opposed RGGI since it was introduced to the state by the Wolf Administration. They say that local power plants will be forced to close if RGGI were to go into effect in Pennsylvania. The administration claims that the state will receive a $300 million windfall in the first year of RGGI regulations from the sale of emissions credits by electricity generators who use coal.
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