{"id":247421,"date":"2026-05-29T07:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247421\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T07:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:18:22","slug":"state-budget-scales-back-on-climate-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247421\/","title":{"rendered":"State budget scales back on climate goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul signed off on the state budget Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>However, it rolls back New York\u2019s landmark climate law.<\/p>\n<p>The 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act was set to cut 40% of greenhouse gases from New York state by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new state budget, that target is now 60% by 2040.<\/p>\n<p>Climate experts are discussing the impact this will have on New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Ottney Mahar, the policy and strategy director of The Nature Conservancy, joined \u201cNY1 at Ten\u201d on Thursday to discuss more.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Kathy Hochul signed off on the state budget Thursday. However, it rolls back New York\u2019s landmark climate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[78289,25,7490,82937,9,24,55,54,12,56,2370,27,200],"class_list":["post-247421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-live-at-ten","tag-app-top-stories","tag-cheryl-wills","tag-dana-mathura","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-ny1-interviews","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247421","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=247421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}