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** City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York City
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Environmentalists’ 2024 Albany Agenda?
Making Polluters Pay
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As the 2024 legislative session kicks off in Albany, environmental advocates say the priority this year will be to back legislation that shifts the burden of funding New York’s transition to a low-carbon economy away from the taxpayer—and make polluters pay instead.
Government officials estimate it will cost nearly $44 billion to fulfill the state’s climate law, which aims to stop powering the state with polluting fossil fuels and reduce 85 percent of greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by 2050.
“We’re going to need real investment from the State to make sure [those costs are] not going to be on the backs of poor and working class New Yorkers,” said Alex Beauchamp, northeast region director at the non-profit Food & Water Watch.
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Will New York Meet its Goals for Offshore Wind Power?
New York has big plans to generate power from non-polluting renewable energy, produced by giant windmills floating in the Atlantic ocean. But energy experts say not enough investment is being made in the port infrastructure needed to assemble the wind turbines and deploy them out to sea. Read the story. ([link removed])
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