ICYMI – MAP’s Phil Goldberg Featured on PMA Perspective Podcast To Discuss Bucks County’s Lawsuit

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Manufacturers’ Accountability Project Special Counsel Phil Goldberg recently joined Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association (PMA) President and CEO David Taylor on the organization’s podcast, “PMA Perspective.” Speaking ahead of oral arguments on the motions to dismiss Bucks County, Pennsylvania’s lawsuit, the pair discussed the legal, economic, and policy implications of this case and its impacts on the Commonwealth’s energy industry and business competitiveness.

Notable comments by Goldberg from the podcast:

  • “This litigation is a political effort by some folks who want to see different policies where Congress or agencies haven’t adopted their preferred policies on what they’d like to do, and so they’re trying to go to the courts…That is dangerous because it’s trying to circumvent the checks and balances of our political system.”
  • “None of this [litigation] is going to do anything to actually address anything related to climate change. . . . It’s not going to make energy use more efficient, and it will have the exact problems that you identified [in terms of raising costs on consumers].”
  •  “All this litigation, it’s going to be pain for families, pain for manufacturers, pain for others in America, but no gain. No gain on climate, no gain on anything we want to see done, and it’s only going to make things worse as you offshore the things that we’re trying to do the right way.”
  • “The goal of our time is to figure out how we source and use energy in ways that are going to be sustainable for both us and the planet. That’s what the focus needs to be. That’s not a liability question, as you wisely observed. That’s a policy question.”
  • “If we can sit down and talk to people and explain the ramifications of joining one of these lawsuits, we’re confident that any neutral arbiter, anyone who wants to do right by their constituents, will realize these [lawsuits] are fool’s gold.”
  • “Manufacturers of all different kinds of products are seeing these kinds of lawsuits, and if they are successful here, we’ll see a lot more of them.”

Goldberg and Taylor also co-authored an op-ed in the Bucks County Herald assessing these various problems with the litigation.