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Cap and Tax : Christie firm on leaving RGGI
When Gov. Chris Christie says New Jersey is withdrawing from a cap-and-trade greenhouse gas program, he means it.
That’s how the Republican governor explained his veto Friday of a bill advanced by Democrats requiring the state to remain in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Christie wrote in his veto message that the legislation was “a political response to my administration’s announcement on May 26, 2011 that the state withdraw from RGGI.”
Christie also repeated his reasons for bailing out of the 10-state program, which caps carbon dioxide emissions from electric power plants and charges the plants for the emissions they produce. (Jordan, Gannett)
