{"id":170009,"date":"2026-03-21T03:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/170009\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T03:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:39:10","slug":"hochul-formally-pitches-delaying-ny-climate-mandates-amid-crippling-looming-utility-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/170009\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul formally pitches delaying NY climate mandates amid crippling looming utility hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALBANY \u2013 Gov. Kathy Hochul is crying for relief from Democrats\u2019 own hallmark climate laws by now formally asking to delay crippling green policies about to take effect as voters start feeling the heat from soaring utility prices.<\/p>\n

Hochul, who is up for re-election in November, wrote in an op-ed Friday<\/a> putting it on the record that she will push to delay the implementation date for an environmental scheme that could cause gas prices to explode<\/a> by 2030.<\/p>\n

\u201cPut simply, something has to give,\u201d Hochul wrote in the piece published on the Empire Report.<\/p>\n

\"GovernorGov. Kathy Hochul wants to push back implementation of New York\u2019s climate law. Darren McGee\/ Office of Governor Kathy Hochul<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot meet the Climate Act\u2019s 2030 targets without imposing new and additional crushing costs on New York businesses and residents,\u201d Hochul said of the law\u2019s requirement that New York reduce emissions by 40% by 2030.<\/p>\n

Hochul\u2019s administration released a memo late last month showing that the current plan to meet the 2030 mandate would sack New York households with an additional $4,000 a pop in costs between gasoline and utilities by that year.<\/p>\n

Under Hochul\u2019s new proposal, the plan\u2019s deadline would effectively be bumped back to 2040. Additional emissions goals for 2050 would be unchanged.<\/p>\n

It would also rejigger the methodology used to calculate New York\u2019s emissions, bringing it in line with other states and significantly relaxing the current, more stringent, method.<\/p>\n

Hochul puzzlingly swears that current utility cost increases have nothing to do with implementation of the climate law mandates.<\/p>\n

Hochul\u2019s proposal was first reported by Politico<\/a> on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

The governor had been planning on possibly inserting a debate over the climate law into closed door state budget negotiations with the legislature for months \u2013\u00a0leading to fury from lefty lawmakers, including a letter<\/a> from 29 Democrats furious at the governor for even teasing the proposal earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\"ClimateEnvironmentalists are furious at Hochul. Michael Nigro<\/p>\n

The state budget is due before April 1, though Hochul has regularly presided over weeks-late fiscal plans in recent years.<\/p>\n

Environmentalists have been once again left fuming at Hochul.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Governor\u2019s reported \u2026 changes are unacceptable. We can\u2019t afford to wait for stronger action. The Legislature must keep fighting to protect the climate law,\u201d wrote Julie Tighe, president of the New York League of Conservation Voters, on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Republicans are using the opportunity to say \u201cI told you so\u201d\u2013\u00a0having spent years railing against the climate law.<\/p>\n

\u201cDelaying the pain doesn\u2019t make it disappear\u2014it just makes New Yorkers pay later. I won\u2019t delay it\u2014I\u2019ll kill it for good and cut your utility bill in half,\u201d said Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, Hochul\u2019s likely GOP contender this November, in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY \u2013 Gov. Kathy Hochul is crying for relief from Democrats\u2019 own hallmark climate laws by now formally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[4241,3431,426,75,84,83,57,9,24,17566,18571,63,58],"class_list":["post-170009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-albany","tag-climate","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-state-assembly","tag-new-york-state-senate","tag-nyc","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}