Wash Submit Editorial Board Turns In opposition to Local weather Agenda?! ‘Symbolic climate gestures please activists, but they become a political liability when the bills come due’ – ‘New York realizes it cannot afford its green promises’ – Whereas ‘Florida has chosen to base its energy generation on reliability & affordability, instead of ideology’

That hasn’t been Hochul’s only climate backtrack. In November, she agreed to a Trump-backed gas pipeline, marking the Empire State’s first pipeline in at least a decade — and the first since they passed their hallmark climate law in 2019 requiring the state to cut carbon emissions 40 percent by 2030. Hochul also signed an agreement granting permits to a gas-powered crypto mining facility, on the condition the plant nearly halves its pollution by 2030.