RGGI: A Faulty Model for “Successful” Cap-and-Trade
Electricity from existing coal is nearly 3 times more affordable than electricity from new wind turbines and almost half as expensive as electricity from new natural gas plants
Back in 2010, President Obama admitted that Congress and the American people had rejected a cap-and-trade program but that there were more ways of “skinning a cat” and his Administration would accomplish the same objective by another method. Now, the Obama Administration has proposed a model federal cap-and-trade plan as a component of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulation on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power plants (the so-called “Clean Power Plan”). EPA’s carbon rule is the president’s attempt to pass national cap-and-trade through the back door.