Josh Shapiro Ditched the Same Climate Pact That Abigail Spanberger Is Joining

At the same time that congressional Democrats were trying to wrangle their way out of the weekslong government shutdown impasse on Capitol Hill, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) faced his own standoff in Harrisburg.

Environmental groups have criticized his capitulation on RGGI, as well as his failure to live up to his green campaign promises in areas like fracking. The Acadia Center, a clean-energy advocacy group, estimated that the state has lost more than $5 billion in estimated RGGI allowance revenues since 2022. Due to legal challenges filed almost immediately after Wolf signed his executive order joining the pact, Pennsylvania never generated any revenues, since the state never participated in the carbon credit auctions.

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