The pro-climate majority once again running Virginia’s General Assembly rightly seized their best opportunity to repudiate Gov. Youngkin’s unhinged and damaging attack on the 2020 centerpiece of Virginia’s historic climate action: RGGI.
Climate leaders rightly included in their recently-passed budget bill a reversal of Youngkin’s lawless attempt to remove Virginia, by executive fiat, from the climate-protecting Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI, pronounced “Reggie”). By simply utilizing the tried-and-true democratic process that Youngkin attempted to upend with his attempt to undo Virginia’s keystone climate law, it’s fitting that the legislature gets the final word on RGGI.
The General Assembly passed RGGI into law in 2020 to great, well-deserved fanfare. In just its first three years since, RGGI has, by design and as expected, slashed climate pollution…