Cap and Trade by Stealth: U.S. States Partner With Foreign Governments
While many Americans have been focused on battling cap-and-trade legislation at the national and international levels, global-warming alarmists have been quietly foisting the same thing upon unsuspecting states and local governments through a regional systems approach. This backdoor approach was heartily endorsed and promoted at the recent United Nations COP16 summit in Mexico. Using unconstitutional partnerships between U.S. state governments and foreign sub-national rulers, these schemes to limit carbon dioxide emissions essentially achieve the same desired effect as the national and global proposals: restricted energy use and higher energy prices for consumers, and more money for governments.
The first and most prominent of these U.S. cap-and-trade systems is known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). It was created not by the people through their legislatures, but by a so-called “Memorandum of Understanding” between state Governors. Legislatures then implemented the scheme in their states.
Consisting so far of 10 Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states — Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont — the scheme is described on the RGGI website as “the first mandatory, market-based effort in the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.” The system also includes other American states and certain Canadian provinces as “observers” — for now.
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