'What appears to be a dorky accounting change is in fact a severe weakening of the climate law,' said one campaigner.
from state Republicans and energy companies that are among the governor's top donors, and would change how state agencies determine the harmful effects of a project's emissions before approving it under the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act .
Hochul's office has said in recent days that it supports a metric that would account for emissions over a 100-year period instead—an accounting methodology used by most other states and countries but one that makes "methane emissions appear much less damaging than they actually are," Shiv Soin, co-executive director of climate action group TREEage,"What appears to be a dorky accounting change is in fact a severe weakening of the climate law," Pete Sikora, climate and...
Cap-and-invest would set an overall limit on emissions for New York and require companies to purchase emissions "allowances."
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