New York Must Rapidly Issue Climate Rules, State Court Finds (1)

New York must rapidly issue rules that put a 2019 climate law into effect, a state court ruled Friday.

In his decision, Judge Julian D. Schreibman of the Third Judicial District Supreme Court ruled the state “does not have the discretion to say no or to decide that it has the authority to choose not to follow the express legislative directive at issue.”

The decision comes as a win to environmentalists who have been leaning heavily on states to push down emissions in the wake of the Trump administration’s sharp drawdown of federal climate protections. New York’s law was passed ...