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Thursday, December 25th, 2014

Here’s The State-Based Climate Solution That Doesn’t Need Congress

Author:     Jeff Spross
Source:     Think Progress
Publication Date:     December 23, 2014 at 2:14 pm
 Link: Here’s The State-Based Climate Solution That Doesn’t Need Congress
Stephan:   Little by little, because it is better, easier, and cheaper non-carbon energy will win through. Here is one of the interesting ways in which it is happening.

shutterstock_132425108-e1418762252387-972x549By and large, the 2014 midterms did not go well for climate hawks. Republicans’ new majority in the Senate will allow them to at least slow down various climate policies, and maybe even scuttle a few completely. The election also solidified the GOP’s grip on various state governments, making state-level green policy less likely, and threatening the rollback of existing laws.

But there was one big exception.

In Pennsylvania, Democrat Tom Wolf ousted Republican Governor Tom Corbett by a handy margin of 54.9 percent to 45.1 percent. Wolf’s victory ended the lockdown the GOP had held over the state’s executive branch and both houses of its legislature. But even more significantly, it served as an implicit endorsement by Pennsylvania voters of a prominent commitment Wolf made during the campaign: if elected, he’d work to move the state into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

Formed in 2008 and updated in 2013, RGGI is a cooperative effort by nine states in the Northeast to cut their collective carbon emissions […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Friday, December 26, 2014 at 5:54 pm

    I just hope we can wake him up to the dangers of fracking because he used that as a way to increase our input of cash to supplement schools, but what expense is that to our environment? only time will tell, as we already have many districts ready to ban fracking because of the pollution to their water supplies.