NY’s 2027 Budget Includes Climate, Emissions Reduction Rollbacks: Gov. Hochul

NY’s 2027 budget includes climate, emissions reduction rollbacks: Gov. Hochul

The state plans to scrap a 2030 goal that sought a 40% reduction in emissions and replace it with a 2040 goal that aims for a 60% reduction.

Green New Deal champion AOC absent as New York weakens climate law

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was first elected after campaigning on climate change, hasn’t weighed in as Gov. Kathy Hochul moves to weaken New York’s climate law.

AOC stays silent while New York guts its own climate law

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the congresswoman who built her national brand on climate activism, has gone quiet at the very moment her home state is rolling back the green agenda she once championed. Gov. Kathy Hochul has largely clinched a budget deal that will delay New York's emissions reduction targets, defer significant new climate policies until 2028, and effectively negate a 2030 goal the state was never on track to meet. Ocasio-Cortez …