Christie,
a
Republican
who
took
office
in
2009,
claims
the
10-state
Regional
Greenhouse
Gas
Initiative
(RGGI)
“does
nothing
more
than
tax
electricity,
tax
our
citizens,
tax
our
businesses,
with
no
discernable
or
measureable
impact
upon
our
environment.”
At
the
same
time,
Christie
announced
a
construction
ban
for
new
coal
power
plants
in
the
state
and
pledged
to
close
older
existing
ones.
“We
need
to
commit
in
New
Jersey
to
making
coal
a
part
of
our
past,”
he
says,
reaffirming
the
state's
ambitions
to
be
an
offshore
wind
leader.
RGGI,
implemented…
