{"id":249728,"date":"2024-04-26T15:21:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T15:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/vas-climate-leaders-repudiate-youngkins-reckless-assault-on-rggi-law\/"},"modified":"2024-04-26T16:38:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T16:38:45","slug":"vas-climate-leaders-repudiate-youngkins-reckless-assault-on-rggi-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/vas-climate-leaders-repudiate-youngkins-reckless-assault-on-rggi-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Va&#8217;s Climate Leaders Repudiate Youngkin&#8217;s Reckless Assault on RGGI Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-wysiwyg=\"\">\n<p>The pro-climate majority once again running Virginia\u2019s General Assembly rightly seized their best opportunity to repudiate Gov. Youngkin\u2019s unhinged and damaging attack on the 2020 centerpiece of Virginia\u2019s historic climate action: RGGI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Climate leaders rightly included in their recently-passed budget bill a reversal of Youngkin\u2019s lawless attempt to remove Virginia, by executive fiat, from the climate-protecting Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI, pronounced \u201cReggie\u201d). By simply utilizing the tried-and-true democratic process that Youngkin attempted to upend with his attempt to undo Virginia\u2019s keystone climate law, it\u2019s fitting that the legislature gets the final word on RGGI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The General Assembly passed RGGI into law in 2020 to great, well-deserved fanfare. 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Youngkin\u2019s unhinged and damaging attack on the 2020 centerpiece of Virginia\u2019s historic climate action: RGGI.\u00a0 Climate leaders rightly included in their recently-passed budget bill a reversal of Youngkin\u2019s lawless attempt to remove Virginia, by executive fiat, from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":249729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[361],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Va&#039;s Climate Leaders Repudiate Youngkin&#039;s Reckless Assault on RGGI Law - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/bio\/walton-shepherd\/virginias-climate-leaders-seize-reins-government-youngkin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Va&#039;s Climate Leaders Repudiate Youngkin&#039;s Reckless Assault on RGGI Law\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The pro-climate majority once again running Virginia\u2019s General Assembly rightly seized their best opportunity to repudiate Gov. 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