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The state Supreme Court says Pennsylvania can’t enforce a rule meant to limit power plant emissions while a legal challenge plays out.
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Pennsylvania’s regulation allowing the state to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative took effect July 1, making it the first major fossil fuel-producing state to price carbon emissions.
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The Supreme Court has taken a major tool off the table to reduce climate pollution. In a 6-3 majority decision, it struck down a now-defunct rule by the Obama EPA, the Clean Power Plan, that would have shifted electricity generation away from coal to cleaner natural gas, solar and wind.
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The battle over the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is now in the courts.
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Coal-related interests are suing to block the centerpiece of Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to fight climate change, a carbon-pricing policy that will impose a cost for emitting planet-warming carbon dioxide from fossil fuel-fired power plants.
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The agency tasked with entering new regulations into the state’s official record is set to publish the Wolf Administration’s climate rule this weekend.
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A Pennsylvania court is holding up the regulation that would let the state join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the main piece of Gov. Tom Wolf’s climate plan.
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Gov. Tom Wolf is rejecting a measure that would keep the state from joining an effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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Pennsylvania moved closer in 2021 to joining a regional program to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
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Gov. Tom Wolf is likely to veto the measure, but that won’t mean the regulation could immediately take effect.