Josh Shapiro (Screenshot: MSNBC/Youtube) This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire By OLIVER LEE BATEMAN The Republican leader of Pennsylvania’s state Senate saluted his allies in labor earlier this month after their successful, years-long effort to defeat what they saw as a job-killing climate initiative. “Thanks to this repeal, the members of this union won’t have to pack suitcases to go to a job,” Sen. Joe Pittman declared while introducing business agent Shawn Steffee of Boilermakers Local 154 in Pittsburgh. “They’ll pack lunchboxes.” In the years since state leaders had committed Pennsylvania to joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), membership in the union had dropped by 650 workers – roughly 30% of the total – between 2019 and 2024 as energy projects fled the…
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