Environmental advocates sound off on state's energy policies

NY Renews, a coalition which championed the passing of the Climate Leadership and Protection Act in 2019, has expressed separate frustration that Governor Kathy Hochul is going back on some of those green energy goals.

“The updated State Energy Plan will now be in the news cycle feeding defeatist proclamations of failed renewable energy and zero-emission mandates along with calls for expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure," said NY Renews Steering Committee member Michael Richardson. "There is no acknowledgment that another goal is going unfulfilled: that is, limiting global warming to 1.5 C. Nor is there data on the catastrophic consequences from the continued production of fossil fuel emissions.

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