{"id":34784,"date":"2021-07-14T09:27:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T13:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=34784"},"modified":"2021-07-14T09:27:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T13:27:39","slug":"letter-rggi-its-not-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=34784","title":{"rendered":"Letter: RGGI- It&#8217;s not too late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To The Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Letters1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14209\" src=\"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Letters1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>Climate change is one of the greatest threats we face.\u00a0 We\u2018re already seeing the effects here in Pennsylvania, like stronger storms and more flooding.\u00a0\u00a0I personally have seen severe flooding in the Upper East Branch Brandywine Creek last year, when fifty refrigerator-size Styrofoam blocks floated down the creek from a go-kart track, and again last month when the blocks had to be prevented from going downstream.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania is the third dirtiest state in the country in terms of carbon pollution, a major cause of climate change. Pennsylvania has the opportunity to join a bipartisan, multi-state program to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 11 states that are already part of RGGI confirm that they\u2019ve been able to cut climate pollution by a third and have raised nearly $3 billion to invest in clean energy and other green projects. Experts project that Pennsylvania can cut carbon pollution by more than 180 million tons, equal to the impact of taking 4 million cars off the road, while creating 27,000 more jobs and adding nearly $2 billion to the state\u2019s economy \u2013 it\u2019s a Win-Win!<\/p>\n<p>A gracious thank you to Senators Katie Muth and Carolyn Comitta who voted No on Senate Bill 119, a shortsighted bill that would prevent Pennsylvania from joining RGGI.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the State House will soon be considering this bill, which will also preclude the PA DEP from regulating carbon in Pennsylvania. I urge Representative Danielle Friel Otten to vote No on SB119 and ask readers to implore their legislators to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Amy Bruckner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Downingtown<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To The Editor, Climate change is one of the greatest threats we face.\u00a0 We\u2018re already seeing the effects here in Pennsylvania, like stronger storms and more flooding.\u00a0\u00a0I personally have seen severe flooding in the Upper East Branch Brandywine Creek last year, when fifty refrigerator-size Styrofoam blocks floated down the creek from a go-kart track, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1329,464,13279],"class_list":["post-34784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-climate-change","tag-pennsylvania","tag-rggi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34785,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34784\/revisions\/34785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}