RGGI funds flood abatement projects which are desperately needed in Southwest Virginia. The Governor wants to pull out of RGGI because it will increase our energy costs. Dominion overcharged its customers over 1 BILLION dollars over the past 6 years - that's what really increased our costs. There is not one piece of evidence that removing Virginia from RGGI will decrease our energy costs, just a fools hope that Dominion will pass along savings. You can bet that won't ever happen.

Southwest communities have been severely affected by flooding in the past year. FEMA funds don't help families, but RGGI funds do. They can also fund abatement projects to avoid future flooding, giving needed infrastructure jobs to the region, saving families and communities from calamities that are becoming ever more common. This funding cannot be replaced by Virginia tax money. If the Southwest doesn't get RGGI money, they get nothing, just thoughts and prayers. Let's help the families and towns in the southwest, stay with RGGI.