My oral testimony delivered this morning to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

Good morning. I’m Steve Milloy. I publish JunkScience.com.

Gov. Wolf wants to enlist Pennsylvania in a futile battle to change the weather.

He’s proposed that Pennsylvania join something called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative or “RGGI”.

RGGI is an agreement between Northeast states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions via a cap-and-trade system.

If Pennsylvania joins RGGI, power plants in the state will have to purchase permits to emit carbon dioxide (CO2).

The scheme is for the price of the permits to increase and their availability to decrease every year so that it becomes more and more expensive for power plants to emit CO2.

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