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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.
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With the super cold winter, our bills here in NYS were through the roof. We have so much natural gas we could tap...when will we get over being stupid...Affordability is available...and the Dems kill it at every turn.
Very sick irresponsible even dangerous people.
New York...avoid it at all costs.
Hahahahaha
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.
My NY Greed bill last month was $570.
Dear powers that be: can we stop with the changing of the clocks every six months, already? Talk about scams driving crazy.
“facing a time bomb left by her predecessor: drastic, legally binding greenhouse gas reduction targets that the state has no practical means of meeting.”
Sounds like most other Democratic plans. Enact policies that have almost no chance of succeeding and then just let voters suffer from them.
Nothin like causing division...but that is the Dems Playbook.
Just sayin'
What does “NY Greed Bill” mean?
What do you mean only 4.88 years left? We are on year 23 of 12 years to save the planet.
Here's a link to the FERC page with rates from last year. I guess NY can be pleased it's not the most expensive.
Elect crap and you get crapped on
Dear powers that be: can we stop with the changing of the clocks every six months, already?
Makes the cats mad with change but the same feeding times ,LOL
I'm still relying on the socialist bartender's incredibly precise prediction that the ENTIRE PLANET will be destroyed if the New Green Scam wasn't voted on even though I may have seen something about the commie softening her position on that. I will carry on with the countdown but will consider other sources.
Idiots
They never do.
Being stupid should hurt.
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