NY's Climate is Changing Fast — So Must Albany
After bouts of smothering smoke from Canadian wildfires fueled by heat and drought, the climate crisis came knocking at New York’s door again last month in the form of a stunning once-in-a-thousand-year deluge in the Hudson Valley. Our legislators appeared shocked and blindsided; many took to social media to commiserate. Gov. Kathy Hochul urged New Yorkers to use every bit of our power to fight the ravages of climate change.
But none of this should be surprising, let alone shocking. It’s not that climate scientists haven’t been warning us about this for decades. And that is exactly why New York passed the landmark Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act in 2019 with emissions reduction targets modeled after the 2015 Paris Agreement adopted by 196 countries to limit human-caused climate damage, primarily from burning fossil fuels.
Both NY HEAT and the Climate Superfund Act are part of NY Renews’ 2023 Climate, Jobs & Justice Package