Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Cry Wolf Quotes
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.
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)
But the governors of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Vermont are still in the compact, ready to impose a heavy economic burden on their citizens.
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From “Ungreening Mitt Romney”, by Robert Novak.
