Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Cry Wolf Quotes
We remain completely committed to the idea that we have a responsibility to make the environment of our state and world better. We’re not going to do it by participating in gimmicky programs that don’t work.
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Chris Christie (R), governor of New Jersey.
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.
Greens have red underbellies. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, communists needed to find a new vocation, so they embraced environmental issues.
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Lawrence Kogan, director of the Princeton, N.J.-based Institute for Trade, Standards and Sustainable Development (ITSSD)
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.
