Posted on 03/10/2026 6:14:41 AM PDT by Libloather
Gov. Hochul has spent much of her 4 ¹/₂ years in office facing a time bomb left by her predecessor: drastic, legally binding greenhouse gas reduction targets that the state has no practical means of meeting.
The 2019 Climate Act requires New York to cut greenhouse gas emissions by about one-quarter from that year’s levels by 2030. The state has made little progress toward this goal, in part because officials shuttered New York’s largest nuclear power plant in 2021.
The law remains on the books, and its defenders balk at revision. If Hochul can’t persuade them to change it, Albany’s green dreams will cause harsh conditions in the Empire State — steep electric bills, green-energy boondoggles and rolling blackouts.
The law has saddled the state with three related but distinct problems: threats to the grid’s reliability, rising electric bills and a looming surge in fuel prices.
The most ominous —and the least visible — is the growing risk that New York City might have difficulty keeping the lights on as soon as June. Last summer’s heat wave, when temperatures reached 100 degrees in some neighborhoods, put the electric grid under extreme stress.
Powerless
In spite of this sort of demand, state air-quality regulations (related to ozone and separate from the Climate Act) have already forced operators to close a few dozen small “peaker” power plants — plants that previously ran for a few hours each summer when demand was highest.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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True.
Well said.
Attention NRC: It’s a great issue for Republicans to raise nationwide. Are you smart and aggressive enough to raise it?
That’s because they’re commies.
Boy, you got that right!
Green ——> Greed?
Obviously anti islam white supremacist hate behind it.
This from a Brave Browser search:
“Approximately 45% to 46% of New York City households own at least one car, based on recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau and city analyses. This means that over half of NYC households are car-free, with the city’s car ownership rate significantly lower than the national average.”
So what we have is a majority of non driving NYC residents telling the rest of New Yorkers what kind of cars they should drive..
> Do you think that the fools who voted Democrat will learn that their voting preferences caused this and vote Republican the next time? I don’t. <
Yeah, you’re right. I recall reading about the German civilian population during WW2. Despite all the Allied bombing and defeats on every front, most Germans remained fiercely loyal to the Nazi Party.
Propaganda works. The Nazis knew that. And so do today’s Democrats and their media lackeys.
All they need to do is look at California - Gov. Newsom's "climate change" and "green" initiatives have lead to the highest gas prices in the country, a failing electrical grid that necessitates rolling blackouts and closures of two, possibly three or more refineries reducing gas by 20% in a car-dependent state.
Hopefully, a Republican will be elected governor this time and maybe, just maybe, some sanity will return to the state.
I'm convinced more than ever that the best plan, if possible, is to produce more of your own energy. Plus make your home more energy efficient to consume less energy without changing your lifestyle (i.e. keep the thermostat set to what you want).
My power bill (Alabama) last month was $169. My power bill + natural gas + gasoline would have been $751 if I hadn't had already converted my two natural gas appliances to electric, installed solar, and if we had driven our 1,411 miles last month in a gas car instead of our EV. And that's in a winter month. Over the past 12 months my power bills averaged $70.
My wife and I are looking at being more self-reliant in other ways. We've expanded our gardening to have more home grown food. (Honestly I don't know how far that'll go since we don't want to work as hard as farmers. LOL) We're looking at capturing rain water, but again I'm not sure that will get somewhere. Anything we can do to wean ourselves of what Big Govt is likely to over-regulate. Especially if the regulation is through pricing (making something too expensive for us to get as much as we need or want).
really, the only question is how much pain will the voters put up with before they replace their governments?
for example, would energy bills at every level increasing by a factor of 10 and rolling blackouts for years cause enough pain to do the job? ... large numbers of “poor” people freezing to death in the dark in the winter and dropping dead from heat prostration every summer?
in regards to ultimately being forced to issue the Climate Act’s long-promised — mandatory and legally required — regulations to increase fuel costs for homes, businesses and vehicles, President Lincoln believed that “The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
Sheep don’t lear.
Agreed.
See Germany...that is your future
This article is a bit of a spin. Nuclear plants have their own type of environmental problems.
A major environmental concern related to nuclear power is creating radioactive waste such as uranium mill tailings, spent (used) reactor fuel, and other radioactive waste. These materials can remain radioactive and dangerous to human health for thousands of years. Radioactive waste is classified as either low-level waste or high-level waste. The radioactivity of the waste can range from a little higher than natural background levels, such as for uranium mill tailings, to the much higher radioactivity of used (spent) reactor fuel and parts of nuclear reactors.
So does it produce carbon footprints? No. But the other problem lasts a lot longer and storage and especially disposing of radioactive waste easily replaces the carbon problem.
Additionally, nuclear power plants cause thermal water pollution by discharging large volumes of heated water into lakes, rivers, and oceans, disrupting aquatic ecosystems. This reduces dissolved oxygen, increases metabolic rates, harms fish, and triggers harmful algae blooms. So they are not covering it all. Just enough to get by. Spin.
wy69
Its the one-party socialist state of New York
The law can’t / won’t be withdrawn because that will be another leftist admission of failure
The law can’t be enacted because it will cost too much and cause too much political pain
SO - it will simply be ignored
Some woke special interests will sue, and time in courts will buy the one-party state of New York another 3-5 years of runway.
Americans of today are not the Americans of their great-grandparents generation. Our society, attitudes and morals have been greatly changed by decades of Neo-marxism, radical agitation, and migration.
especially with a a one-party controlled leftist state like New York - you ask how long will voters put up with it?
Think Venezuela.
later
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