{"id":183294,"date":"2026-04-02T11:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183294\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:08:06","slug":"hochul-mulls-deferring-new-york-climate-ambitions-to-2040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183294\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul mulls deferring New York climate ambitions to 2040"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY, New York \u2014 Gov. Kathy Hochul is pushing to weaken New York\u2019s landmark climate law and set a new interim target she likely won\u2019t be in office to miss.<\/p>\n<p>The Hochul administration has already missed targets in the law for establishing regulations to meet a 2030 target for emissions reductions. The governor\u2019s delays have drawn the ire of environmental advocates, who are fighting her proposal to change the climate law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything the governor has proposed is to kick the can down the line so she doesn\u2019t have to do anything,\u201d said Liz Moran, New York policy advocate for Earthjustice. The group represents environmental justice groups suing the state over its failure to issue regulations by the 2024 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the governor\u2019s proposal is an interim, likely <a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/article\/2026\/03\/hochul-softens-commitment-to-cap-and-invest-00840372?site=pro&amp;prod=alert&amp;prodname=alertmail&amp;linktype=article&amp;source=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">nonbinding 2040 emissions reduction target<\/a>. But lawmakers haven\u2019t yet gotten any details about the proposed target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, New York \u2014 Gov. Kathy Hochul is pushing to weaken New York\u2019s landmark climate law and set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-183294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183294","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=183294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}