Mrs. Hochul had been warning that the state’s green energy regime, a product of the Climate Leadership Climate Protection Act, needs changes to spare New Yorkers from a self-inflicted surge in energy costs.
Unfortunately, Mrs. Hochul’s 2027 Budget plan, as described in its current publicly available form, barely mentions the flawed climate law. Only at the end does it promise to “enact common-sense changes” to the law to meet “clean energy and climate goals while at the same time prioritizing affordability.”
Instead, the plan wastes time scapegoating energy companies, fiddling with rate-setting formulas, and pushing a Mamdani-esque theory that electricity is expensive because energy-company executives travel too much.
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