Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state’s participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) late last week.

Last year, NJ earned $65 million from the emissions auctions and some politicians think that Christie should now give that money back:

“The governor has to be accountable to the ratepayers, because this money is coming from the ratepayers – not taxpayers.”

Upendra Chivukula
The Assembly deputy speaker

“It gave him some of the excuses to pull out of RGGI – he takes the money and says the program is not working.”

Jeff Tittel
Director of the Sierra Club’s New Jersey chapter
Commenting on Environment New Jersey, a statewide advocacy group, which said the governor had cut more than $400 million from state clean energy programs last year, including $52 million from the budget of the Clean Energy Fund.

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