Energy and climateFinding
Pennsylvania should create its own cap-and-trade program for power plant carbon emissions.
Pennsylvania left the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in 2025 and has no program limiting power plant carbon emissions. A state program would cap emissions and require plants to buy allowances, with the money used as the law directs.
Josh Shapiro
PACER would establish a Pennsylvania-specific cap-and-invest program
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