Citing concerns about affordability, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has proposed revising the state’s 2019 climate law, asking to delay regulations to implement it and to adopt a different greenhouse-gas accounting method.
The changes would effectively water down a law viewed as one of the most ambitious state climate policies in the US.
Hochul called the law’s current targets “costly and unattainable” in a statement released Friday. “This is solely out of necessity — to protect New Yorkers’ pocketbooks and economy,” she said.
The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) targets a 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by ...