Great to see @dec.ny.gov release its proposed GHG emissions reporting rule yesterday. But we can't stop there! @governor.ny.gov can deliver cleaner air and an affordable, climate-safe future by releasing the cap-and-invest program rules today www.edf.org/media/new-yo...
the drop of any reference to target years before 2050 is disconcerting
Real New Yorkers know that the subway is King. Attacking a popular program that improves public transit while cutting down on traffic is royally reckless.
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The world has changed before and, when it did, it wasn’t because a president, a prime minister, a CEO or a celebrity decided it had to.
It began when ordinary people – people of no particular power, wealth, or fame – decided that the world could and should be different.
This could leave NY mostly tinkering around the edges at a time when the incoming Trump administration is promising a massive rollback of federal climate efforts and many are looking to big, blue states to hold the line nysfocus.com/2025/01/15/s...
New York is preparing to launch a Cap-and-Invest (C&I) program that could be transformative for the state, catalyzing an economy-wide shift to clean energy, while raising billions of # a year to invest in decarbonization projects—according to a report we dropped just this morning. 1/4 🔌💡#climatesky
Hochul is set to announce long-awaited details of NY’s carbon pricing scheme in January — including a low price on emissions that would override the “cap” in the program’s name.
Here’s my look at what that would mean, and why many climate advocates are still eager to move ahead
