Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Cry Wolf Quotes
This program is not effective in reducing greenhouse gases and is unlikely to be in the future. The whole system is not working as it was intended to work. It’s a failure.
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Chris Christie (R), governor of New Jersey.
[RGGI money] was taken by regulators from consumers in the form of higher electricity bills and then redistributed to environmental special interests friendly to the politicians in power.
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Americans for Prosperity New Hampshire state director, Corey R. Lewandowski.
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 is] nothing more than a tax on electricity, a tax on our residents and on businesses with no discernible effect on our environment.
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Chris Christie (R), governor of New Jersey.
