{"id":32365,"date":"2025-11-12T21:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/32365\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:36:08","slug":"pennsylvania-ends-participation-in-regional-cap-and-trade-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/32365\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Ends Participation in Regional Cap-and-Trade Pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania lawmakers on Wednesday passed a budget bill that would pull the state out of a northeastern cap-and-trade pact, potentially dealing a heavy blow to climate decarbonization goals.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania is among the nation\u2019s largest producers of gas, coal, overall electrical generation, and net electricity exports, making it a key target for environmentalists who support the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).<\/p>\n<p>But opponents of the program have long argued it kills jobs, hikes energy bills, and does little or nothing to curb emissions because neighboring states can still &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania lawmakers on Wednesday passed a budget bill that would pull the state out of a northeastern cap-and-trade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20380,20378,20377,20374,28,30,29,20379,1978,20375,20376],"class_list":{"0":"post-32365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-carbon-emissions-trading","9":"tag-coal","10":"tag-exports","11":"tag-natural-gas","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","14":"tag-pennsylvania-news","15":"tag-public-utilities","16":"tag-state-budget","17":"tag-state-environmental-legislation","18":"tag-trade-agreements"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}