New York State Sea Level Rise: Fantasy as Law
20 hours ago Kip Hansen 59 Comments
Opinion by Kip Hansen — 28 February 2024 — 2700 words/13 minutes
In the United States, both Federal and State agencies make pseudo-laws by formalizing “rules” which have the effect of law but are not written by or voted on by the legislators which have the responsibility to make law.
We see this in the fight over CO2 and PM2.5 rules from U.S. Federal agencies like the EPA. At the Federal level, the rule making process takes more than a year, usually two or more and includes Public Comment periods. Rules are difficult to undo – and require the same lengthy process to make a new rule to override the old.
New York State, currently big on the Climate Crisis, has just proposed a new rule as follows:
Proposed Action: Amendment of Part 490 of Title 6 NYCRR.
Statutory authority: Environmental Conservation Law, section 3-0319
Subject: Science-based State sea level rise projections. — Purpose: To establish a common source of sea-level rise projections for consideration in relevant programs and decision-making.
In plain English, the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC) proposes a common source of Sea Level Rise Projections to be used statewide for program planning and decisions making. This sounds good, right? Can’t have all these different government programs and politicians using different data – that would be a mess.
Let’s see what they are mandating through this rule:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/02/29/new-york-state-sea-level-rise-fantasy-as-law/
