The stage is set for a battle royale within the New York Democratic Party over climate policy. Governor Hochul has suddenly realized that the cost of the state’s planned emission reduction scheme will be “extraordinary,” and is challenging her Read More
Four years after passage of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, state officials have finally begun to take a close look at the law’s consumer costs. Read More
Over budget, over time, over and over – that’s the Megaprojects are transformational, multi-billion-dollar, multi-year projects i Read More
Federal and state assistance would pay for only about 10 percent of the state’s total effort to electrify its entire school bus fleet, according to a new Empire Center research paper. Read More
Governor Hochul faced questioning in this election’s only gubernatorial debate about whether she’d sign the cryptocurrency mining moratorium. Read More
A new law requires New York State’s school bus fleet be entirely zero-emission by 2035. But it's unlikely the state can meet that deadline. Read More
The future is not bright for the Empire State’s electrical power grid, according to the newly released 2021 - 2040 System & Resource Outlook Read More
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