PennFuture

Green Watch
RGGI Update: Virginia and RGGI
There are currently 11 Northeast and mid-Atlantic states participating in the multistate climate change agreement, widely known as Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), built around “cap-and-trade” regulations that limit carbon…
by Kevin Mooney on May 11, 2022

Green Watch
RGGI Update: Clean Energy’s Dirty Footprint
The “clean energy” initiatives that flow out of the climate change regulations are neither clean nor green because wind and solar energy projects come with their own environmental baggage.
by Kevin Mooney on May 11, 2022

Green Watch
RGGI Update: Pennsylvania Legislature Resists
While regulatory relief efforts gather steam in Virginia, lawmakers in Pennsylvania are taking notice. Aptly named the Keystone State for the crucial role it played in the founding and development…
by Kevin Mooney on May 11, 2022

Green Watch
RGGI Update: Avoiding the Democratic Process
Just as in Virginia, a large well-funded network of environmental advocacy groups is lining up the proponents of RGGI. They have persistently echoed the governor’s messaging. The Natural Resources Defense…
by Kevin Mooney on May 11, 2022

Featured Items, Green Watch
Tom Wolf’s Proposed Climate Catastrophe
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) is on the precipice of deciding whether Pennsylvania should join the Regional Green Gas Initiative (RGGI), a multistate “cap and trade” agreement that sets limits…
by CRC Staff on October 28, 2021

Green Watch
Behind Pennsylvania’s “Green” Activists: Pennsylvania’s Big Funders
Pennsylvania is the main battlefield in the environmental Left’s effort to “green” the country with radical policies that promise to raise the cost of electricity, household appliances, and grocery bills—all…
by Hayden Ludwig, Kevin Mooney on June 2, 2021

Green Watch
Behind Pennsylvania’s “Green” Activists: PennFuture
PennFuture and Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania form a 501(c)(3)-501(c)(4) pair of activist nonprofits that aim to totally wipe out the state’s reliance on coal, natural gas, and oil, which it…
by Hayden Ludwig, Kevin Mooney on June 2, 2021

Green Watch
Behind Pennsylvania’s “Green” Activists: PEC and PennEnvironment
The Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) is a lobbying group with roots in the radical environmental movement of the early 1970s. The group was founded in 1970 to combat “the ravages…
by Hayden Ludwig, Kevin Mooney on June 2, 2021

Green Watch
Behind Pennsylvania’s “Green” Activists: Pennsylvanians Against Fracking
Left-leaning foundations outside Pennsylvania clearly understand how critical the commonwealth is to the oil and gas industry, which explains why they are funding climate change initiatives in the Keystone State…
by Hayden Ludwig, Kevin Mooney on June 2, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Leftists in Pennsylvania Outspent Conservatives 3 to 1 in 2020
It’s time for the myth that conservatives outspend liberal elections groups to go the way of the dodo. New research examining the 2020 election in Pennsylvania reveals that left-wing political…
by Hayden Ludwig, Kevin Mooney on May 12, 2021