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The Department of Environmental Protection is hoping to address environmental justice concerns raised by Pennsylvania’s attempt to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. The cap and trade program with 11 other states aims to reduce power plant emissions.
Sounds good. What s the problem?
Some big unions like this thing. Large environmental groups such as Climate Solutions, Washington Conservation Voters, the Washington Environmental Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Nature Conservancy like this thing. BP, who spent $13 million to kill the 2018 carbon fee initiative, and private utilities support this thing.
But the climate justice community, as represented by about 40 organizations around the state, does not support this thing. And they ve got reasons.
Climate justice advocates argue Washington s cap and trade scheme won t stop air pollution at its source quick enough, and it won t lower emissions in time to meet the state s goals, mostly because big polluters use the allowances and offsets to game the market.
Mary Nichols Was the Early Favorite to Run Biden’s EPA, Before She Became a ‘Casualty’
While progressives attacked her record on environmental justice, her supporters in California say such criticism is unjust and mourn the loss of her tactical skills.
February 9, 2021
Former California Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nichols was rumored to be a top candidate for EPA Administrator in the Biden Administration. But after attacks on Nichols’ record on environmental justice, Michael Regan was nominated for the post. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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As the Biden administration wrestles with implementing a stack of executive orders on climate change, the president will be proceeding without someone environmentalists see as one of the most skilled and effective regulatory tacticians in the country: Mary Nichols.