State Democrats Launch New Efforts To Force New Jersey To Re-Join RGGI

Democrats in New Jersey have taken another step in their attempt to force Gov. Chris Christie (R) to re-join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) cap-and-trade program, part of a multi-pronged campaign to reverse the governor's 2011 decision to remove the state from the Northeast power sector GHG program. In the latest action in what one environmentalist earlier called “RGGI chess,” an environment committee in the New Jersey Assembly on March 3 endorsed a bill, A1493 , that “clarifies” the...