VPR News: Three States Consider Leaving [$860 million global warming swindle]

(Quinton) If Maine and New Hampshire withdraw from RGGI, analysts say the program is still likely to continue.

That may be because Maine and New Hampshire don't release a lot of greenhouse gases.

So the number of pollution credits they sell at auction is small.

But New Jersey's governor is also talking about withdrawing from RGGI.

That state makes up 12 percent of the carbon market.

Anthony Leiserowitz, with the Yale University Project on Climate Change, says if New Jersey steps out it could deal a death blow to RGGI.

(Leiserowitz) "How it plays nationally however is that it just seems to accelerate this sense that the country as a whole and in particular Republicans and Conservatives in this country are really climbing out on a limb farther and farther away from climate science."