Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Cry Wolf Quotes
[The RGGI states] are going to be shooting themselves in the foot economically and driving even more of their manufacturing base overseas.
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Douglas L. Biden, president of the Harrisburg-based Electric Power Generation Association.
This program is not effective in reducing greenhouse gases and is unlikely to be in the future. The whole system is not working as it was intended to work. It’s a failure.
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Chris Christie (R), governor of New Jersey.
The programs will cost billions of dollars with little if any derived benefit to the large users.
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Steven Goldenberg, attorney for the New Jersey Large Energy Users Coalition.
High energy costs, like taxes, just make New Jersey a tougher state in which to do business. This is not a partisan issue, it’s just a bad deal for New Jersey.
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Philip Kirschner, president of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association, represents 22,000 employers in the state.
