Governor Murphy has another major opportunity to tackle climate change by adopting a strong carbon pollution limit—capping New Jersey’s power plant CO2 emissions at between 12 and 13 million tons in 2020—as the state reenters the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
In 2016, the states that make up the Northeast's and Mid-Atlantic's Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative not only continued to cut carbon pollution, they also made great strides in clean energy and modeled new ways to improve this pioneering program that…