NY budget deal includes Climate Act changes amid price spike fears

NY Renews, a coalition of labor unions, community groups and environmental advocacy organizations, issued a statement criticizing Hochul’s “end run around the people of New York and the state Legislature.”

“Not only is she threatening to eviscerate nation-leading climate and environmental justice protections as written into law in the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, but she is also doing so by trouncing the will of the people and the legislators elected to represent them," said Stephan Edel, the coalition’s executive director. “This is not only bad for the democratic process in New York, it is also an attempt to make profound, harmful changes to the trajectory of New York’s climate future behind closed doors, without public input, and without meaningful partnership with leaders of the Legislature.”

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