Virginia AG Wrote Opinion that Governor Cannot Pull out of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

JANUARY 11, 2022

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring wrote an official opinion arguing that “the Governor may not repeal or eliminate, through an executive order or other action, the enacted statutes and regulations pertaining to the Commonwealth’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and/or a market-based trading program like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or do away with the requirement that electricity producers hold carbon dioxide allowances that equal the amount of their carbon dioxide emissions.”