Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Environmental Quality
 
Board
Air Pollution Control Board
 
chapter
Regulation for Emissions Trading [9 VAC 5 ‑ 140]
Action Repeal CO 2 Budget Trading Program as required by Executive Order 9 (Revision A22)
Stage NOIRA
Comment Period Ended on 10/26/2022
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9/28/22  9:39 am
Commenter: Hanover County

Pulling out of RGGI sets Virginia back
 

The Governor is wrong, wrong, wrong to propose leaving the regional greenhouse gas initiative. Our global climate is changing, and we need broad, creative solutions to deal with it. Burying Virginia’s head in the sand, refusing to cooperate with partners in other states, and continuing to pretend that the cost of addressing environmental disaster can be put off till another day, or pawned off onto the next administration, is the definition of foolhardiness. True conservatives should embrace solutions like carbon markets that count the real cost of damage to our environment and seek to reverse unsustainable trends. Leaving RGGI is shameful. 

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