Pennsylvania's coal and natural gas-fired power plants will pay for each ton of carbon dioxide they release as of July 1 as a Wolf administration rule to rein in climate warming pollution from power plants started tracking and capping emissions.
Pennsylvania’s fossil fuel power plants began having to comply with Gov. Tom Wolf’s hallmark climate rule on Friday, one day after a U.S. Supreme Court decision restricted federal regulators’ tools for cutting greenhouse gas pollution across the power sector nationwide.
In Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court ruling raised the stakes for the new carbon cap-and-trade rule, which is being challenged in the state's Commonwealth Court by Republican legislators as well as coal-fired power plants and unions representing their workers. The rule written by the state Department of Environmental Protection makes Pennsylvania the nation's largest electricity producer to put a price and gradually declining cap on carbon emissions from its power plants. It also links Pennsylvania with 11 other states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, which runs a shared market for the allowances that the plants must buy for their emissions.
"We need climate leadership on the state level and RGGI can absolutely deliver that in Pennsylvania," he said. Robert McKinstry, an environmental attorney who is petitioning Pennsylvania regulators to craft a whole-economy greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program, said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency retains several powerful tools to curb carbon emissions and it intends to use them.
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