New York State’s Climate Act: A Bureaucratic Disaster Verging On Collapse
New York's official energy plan is to have no plan.
by Francis Menton August 12, 2025, 12:58 PM
It was in July 2019 that New York State adopted its Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.
Our Legislature and Governor (it was Andrew Cuomo at the time) had officially designated us as the climate “leader,” here to show the unsophisticated rubes and provincials in the rest of the country how a small application of political will could transform our electricity system from majority fossil fuels in 2019 to 70% “renewables” by 2030 and 100% “zero-carbon” by 2040. [emphasis, links added]
Now, six years into the eleven available to meet the 2030 mandate, we instead get less of our electricity from zero-carbon sources than we did in 2019.
The reason is that the large (2 GW) Indian Point nuclear plant was forced to close under pressure from environmentalists, to be replaced by two natural gas plants of approximately the same total capacity.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/new-york-climate-act-bureaucratic-disaster/
