Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Cry Wolf Quotes
RGGI makes us less competitive.
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New Jersey State Senator Steven Oroho (R., Sussex).
[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)
That's just an excuse to create a money-making cap-and-trade scheme that'll drive up electric rates.
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Narrator from one of Americans for Prosperity’s anti-RGGI ads.
This is the biggest conspiracy between the public sector, big banks and government that Americans have ever seen and you the ratepayers are going to pay the price…. This is not about a clean environment. This is not about green energy. This is about raising taxes on your energy and passing that energy rate tax onto you the ratepayer.
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Steve Lonegan, director of the New Jersey chapter of Americans for Prosperity
