Since before his election as Pennsylvania governor last year, Josh Shapiro has waffled on whether he’d support the state entering the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), an 11-state compact to reduce carbon emissions from the energy sector by requiring power plants to buy and trade carbon dioxide allowances for every ton they emit.
Now, in the wake of revelations that his administration has met behind closed doors with a committee that includes executives of several fossil fuel producers to discuss the controversial program, environmentalists in the Keystone State are demanding more transparency around the committee’s deliberations and are pushing for Shapiro to express his support for RGGI.
