Elected officials and advocates from around Central New York gathered at the Salt City Market on Friday morning, calling for the state to keep the climate law as is.
It comes as the debate rages on in Albany over the future of the 2019 law.
A memo circulating by the Hochul administration finds that utility costs could rise if the state’s emission goals and other similar programming is left unchanged. But local representatives are asking for the law to remain unchanged.
“We’re determined to keep it on track and make sure that we are delivering for the people of New York the kind of energy security and lower prices and safer planet that we all want,” said State Sen. Rachel May (D – Syracuse).
Democratic state lawmakers have shown no interest in rolling back the climate law. Potential changes could range from altering the way the state counts emissions to adjustments to the deadlines by which certain benchmarks must be met.