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From Manhattan Contrarian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Francis Menton<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York State\u2019s fiscal year <\/strong>runs from April 1 to March 31, and thus there is a mandate that the budget for each year must be approved before April Fool\u2019s Day<\/strong>. This year they blew right by that deadline. But today, 8+ weeks late, it appears that a new budget has been enacted for what they call \u201cfiscal year\u201d 2027<\/strong>, that is, April 1, 2026, to March 31, 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among several contentious issues that held up enactment of this year\u2019s budget, probably the most contentious involved the provisions relating to energy and \u201cclimate.\u201d Our climate law<\/strong>, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of 2019 (CLCPA)<\/strong> had imposed absurd deadlines for eliminating fossil fuels from the energy system. Seven years in, Kathy Hochul<\/strong>, our lightweight Governor, had finally mustered just enough brain cells to recognize that disaster was approaching. But she faces big legislative majorities of her own Democratic Party committed to \u201cclimate action<\/strong>.\u201d And of the members constituting those majorities, most are not moderates open to pragmatism, but rather progressive activists committed to total climate purity. How to get out of this trap?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hochul adopted a strategy of seeking minimum possible modifications of of the CLCPA, affecting only the most immediate impending deadlines of the Act. The apparent goal is to provide a couple of years of breathing room, sufficient (they hope) to get Hochul safely re-elected later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then what? It looks like they have traded a very brief reprieve for what will very likely be an even worse subsequent disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, let\u2019s review the problematical CLCPA provisions. The CLCPA had three near-term deadlines that had become obviously impossible. Those were: (1) a 2024 deadline for promulgating regulations, particularly for what they called a \u201ccap and invest\u201d program<\/strong>, to implement the Act; (2) a 2030 deadline to reduce statewide \u201cgreenhouse gas\u201d emissions <\/strong>by 40% from 1990 levels; and (3) a 2030 deadline to get 70% of electricity from \u201crenewables.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So where was the State with respect to these CLCPA statutory mandates?<\/p>\n\n\n\n