Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Cry Wolf Quotes
RGGI drives up energy costs for consumers at a time when nobody can afford any additional taxes.
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New Jersey State Senator Diane Allen (R-Burlington).
No state or nation has enhanced economic opportunities [from cap-and-trade and] Europe's cap-and-trade system has been undermined by political favoritism and accounting tricks.
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From the preamble to a piece of failed New Hampshire legislation that would have removed the state from RGGI.
[Companies covered by RGGI] will be placed at a competitive disadvantage vis-à-vis their non-RGGI competitors (domestic as well as international).
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Lawrence Kogan, director of the Princeton, N.J.-based Institute for Trade, Standards and Sustainable Development (ITSSD)
While the states signing on the dotted line will trumpet this proposal, the economic reality ... ought to be a bucket of icy cold New England water. [Now consumers will be] paying even higher prices.
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Frank Maisano, a utility industry lobbyist with Bracewell & Giuliani in Washington.
