Posted on 03/27/2026 4:10:08 PM PDT by lowbridge
As Gov. Kathy Hochul looks to rework New York's climate goals, Mayor Zohran Mamdani's climate chief says the city's own environmental benchmarks are critical to improving affordability in the five boroughs.
Hochul is asking lawmakers to push the timeline set forth in the state’s climate law, which called for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 40%, from 2030 to 2040. The governor has said her actions are motivated by affordability, and that implementing the law under the existing terms would be onerously expensive for New Yorkers.
In contrast, New York City is moving ahead without political delays. Chief Climate Officer Louise Yeung told Gothamist that the Mamdani administration sees addressing climate change as part of its broader strategy to tackle affordability.
“The cost of living is increasingly difficult for New Yorkers to remain in the city and to have a good quality of life,” said Yeung, who is leading the Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice. “Embedded in that is also the amount of money that we are paying for our utility bills, the amount of money that we are spending to rebuild after it floods, and there's so many ways that our climate solutions can be part of our economic justice. Climate solutions can be part of our affordability.”
Yeung, who was formerly the climate chief at the city comptroller's office, said her priorities in her new role include working to meet the targets laid out in the city's Local Law 97, which is intended to wean buildings off gas heating and cooking. She is also looking for ways to lower the number of cars on the road and make sure the city is resilient in the face of an evolving climate.
(Excerpt) Read more at gothamist.com ...
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Yeung. Another foreign freak trying to tell Americans how to live.
Chief Climate Officer Louise Yeung the Chinese Communist Party Spy that is screwing with the US
What else can Louise say without getting fired?
She lives with a Cat and 2 Snails ,LOL
This is NYC.
She’s not telling any actual *Americans* how to live. Just willing slaves to the regime.
You’re right. I forgot about that.
The dude has square tires.
“...addressing climate change as part of its broader strategy to tackle affordability”
It sure will. It will tackle affordability into the ground!
Delusional at best, criminal at worst
Where do these clowns get the arrogance as if only New York can save the entire world? Do these a-holes even know what greenhouse gases are? It’s CO2 you buy to pump into a greenhouse to make the plants grow faster. It’s called “CO2 enrichment”. To suggest that CO2 or methane which are at 0.0% levels will destroy the poles and flood leftist cities is absolute BS unfortunately
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go8pd7_ci1Y
The meltdown will be Biblical.
Popcorn? Check
Booze locker? Check
I’m ready.
Boy...wait till we have a noreaster.
A thermonuclear blast wiping New York City off that map and thermo sterilizing the remains is the only true way to fix New York City’s environment.
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Tsar Bomba
What is the most common and prevalent greenhouse gas? Why DiHydrogen Oxide of course. It is more than 300 times more in content than CO2. So, stop drinking water! Then we can all afford to live in peace and plenty!
Yes, better that even MORE gas is burned as long as the greenhouse gases are kept away from the city to generate the electric power for heating and cooking in the city and cover for the transmission losses.
“NYC climate chief says environmental policies and affordability go hand-in-hand”
They are such full of shit liars. Delusional pos that hallucinate that NYC capping CO2 emissions (electric stoves and EVs) will make living there more affordable. These are the low level kooks.
While there are plenty of Democrat connected businessmen/ corporations that will get rich from dumb “climate change” policies.
It’s two, two!
Two tyrannies in one!
NEITHER ONE CAN DO A SINGLE BIT OF MATH
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