Agency
Department of Environmental Quality
 
Board
Air Pollution Control Board
 
chapter
Regulation for Emissions Trading Programs [9 VAC 5 ‑ 140]
Action Repeal CO 2 Budget Trading Program as required by Executive Order 9 (Revision A22)
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 3/31/2023
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3/29/23  8:24 pm
Commenter: Mackenzie Shutlet

Don’t leave RGGI
 

Hey, please do not backslide, joining RGGI was a good move. We are at a breaking point with the environment and should be taking moves to conserve and innovate technology to enable our planet to sustain life longer. Why are you trying to withdrawal us? For businesses because their PAC donate to your war chess. This is a short sided move that hurts future generations. Grow up, put on your big boy pants, don’t play partisan politics with our future. 

Look around, our neighboring state with a very similar landscape to Virginia is on fire, which is very abnormal, especially at this time of year. Year after year we see more intense hurricanes that are making their way up the coast and a hurricane season that is  lasting longer. It’s getting more and more warm and wet. You can’t ignore how the environment is changing. Your constituents are having their houses. Flood and people are dying due to heat waves. Don’t ignore what is happening in your backyard.

Do the right thing keep us in our RGGI. 

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