Despite his best efforts, the people of Pennsylvania will prevail.
Real Clear Energy (7/21/21) reports: "Urgent action is needed to combat climate change for the benefit of Pennsylvania’s children and grandchildren, Governor Tom Wolf said while commenting on his administration’s Climate Impacts Assessment for 2021...But the governor is getting pushback. State Senator Gene Yaw, who chairs the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, calls RGGI 'superficial,' counterproductive, and costly. Yaw says that Wolf’s pursuit of RGGI regulations raises significant constitutional questions since its cap-and-trade program would impose carbon taxes on Pennsylvania residents that only the state legislature can approve...As it turns out, the production of new renewable-energy platforms will require intense mining exercises to acquire the minerals like lithium, graphite, nickel, and rare-earth metals, according to the report. Such mining involves child labor in some parts of the world, such as in the Democratic Republic of Congo. With these facts in mind, Dan Kish, a senior fellow with the Institute for Energy Research, advises the public to be leery of political figures who make use of moral language to camouflage the real costs of their green schemes."
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"'Climate risk to the financial system' is dreamed up and repeated until people believe it, in order to shoehorn these climate policies into financial regulators’ limited legal mandates."
– John H. Cochrane,
Hoover Institution
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