Tag: Energy

Climate activists want to drive up home prices and heating costs for moderate- and lower-income New Yorkers. Where’s the justice in that? Read More

After nearly a week’s delay, Governor Kathy Hochul has finally announced a budget deal. Though the legislature has yet to formally agree to most of it, she disclosed numerous specifics of the purported $220 billion deal. Read More

The amount the Legislature proposes to spend, while dramatically increasing the size of the bond itself, is barely even a down payment on the huge cost of the CLCPA.  Read More

In the private sector, false advertising can get you into legal trouble. In the public sector, it’s often good politics.   Read More

Many New Yorkers have recently suffered sticker shock from high energy prices. Utility bills have increased up to 25 percent. Read More

While the power from these new projects will go directly into the City, all New York utility users will help pay for them through their utilities’ purchases of renewable energy credits.   Read More

Governor Hochul’s budget proposal is surprisingly quiet about New York’s most far-reaching and expensive public policy, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act Read More

The Empire Center for Public Policy offered the following reactions to the proposed 2022 State Budget. Read More