Overview
- Gov. Kathy Hochul has not released a specific plan, but she is asking lawmakers to scale back timelines or rules in closed-door negotiations before the March 31 budget deadline.
- Her case cites a NYSERDA memo modeling a cap-and-invest path that projects gasoline could be $2.23 a gallon higher and some households could face up to $4,000 a year in added oil and natural gas costs.
- Environmental advocates and several Democratic lawmakers call the analysis selective, and 29 of the Senate’s 41 Democrats signed a letter opposing any rollback of the 2019 climate law.
- The Public Service Commission has opened a comment period on proposals to suspend or modify energy-transition targets as the policy fight unfolds.
- The administration’s January 2025 delay of cap-and-invest regulations remains tied up in court, and no statutory changes to the climate law have been enacted.