Climate Politics
Hochul Moves to Weaken Aggressive New York State Climate Law
The governor said meeting the current timeline to reduce emissions is “costly and unattainble.”
Kathy Hochul, governor of New York, speaks during a news conference at the WIN NYC family shelter on March 5.
Photographer: Adam Gray/BloombergCiting concerns about affordability, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has proposed revising the state’s 2019 climate law, asking to delay regulations to implement it by several years 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.