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#15188225 at 2021-12-13 23:33:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19214 New baker ebake Edition
Gov. Tom Wolf's administration wants the centerpiece of the Democrat's plan to fight climate change to take effect immediately, but it is being held up in a growing legal dispute by an agency that answers to the Republican-controlled Legislature.
On Friday, Wolf's secretary of environmental protection, Patrick McDonnell, wrote to the Legislative Reference Bureau to insist that it publish Wolf's regulation to impose a price on carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants.
Publishing it in the Pennsylvania Bulletin would mean the regulation takes immediate effect, and would make Pennsylvania the first major fossil fuel state to adopt a carbon pricing policy. The bulletin is published weekly as an official record of actions by government agencies.
However, Republicans who control the Legislature oppose the regulation and argue that they have more time, months even, to take votes on it. McDonnell wrote that the legislative review period has expired and that Republicans' interpretation of the law is wrong.
"It is a violation of the separation of powers doctrine, unnecessarily impeding the executive branch's ability to execute its rulemaking authority," McDonnell wrote.
House and Senate leaders, however, did not back down Monday from their interpretation of the law and its timeline.
https://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylvania/capitol-ideas/mc-nws-pa-wolf-carbon-pricing-20211213-lnih4xhswzcfxfg6qaf6ek5w5q-story.html