{"id":644656,"date":"2026-05-15T12:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/644656\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:26:13","slug":"why-is-new-york-breaking-its-climate-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/644656\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is New York Breaking Its Climate Promises?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">This is a stunning reversal for Governor Kathy Hochul, who was<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collections\/time-100-climate-2025\/7326528\/kathy-hochul\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> named to<\/a> the TIME100 Climate list in 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/news\/governor-hochul-named-2025-time100-climate-list-100-most-influential-leaders-driving-business\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">co-chaired<\/a> the U.S. Climate Alliance, and now <a href=\"https:\/\/usclimatealliance.org\/press-releases\/2026-27-executive-committee-may-2026\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sits on its executive committee<\/a>. Those credentials rest on a premise she is about to abandon: states must lead when the federal government retreats.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">As always, the devil is in the details. The proposed changes <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/politics\/2026\/05\/07\/hochul--budget-has-climate--car-insurance-changes\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">would extend<\/a> the deadline for greenhouse gas regulations from 2024 to 2028. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstateny.com\/politics\/2026\/05\/budget-deal-or-no-budget-deal-depends-who-you-ask\/413398\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">would also replace<\/a> the binding 2030 emissions target with a softer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/capitol\/article\/ny-budget-deal-includes-climate-act-changes-amid-22246680.php\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2040 commitment<\/a> and adopt a<a href=\"https:\/\/heatmap.news\/climate\/new-york-climate-goals\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> methane accounting method<\/a> that makes fossil-fuel emissions look smaller without actually reducing them. The 2050 target remains, but the deal weakens the pressure to act now, allowing dangerous greenhouse gas pollution to amass in the intervening quarter-century.New York is <a href=\"https:\/\/library.edf.org\/AssetLink\/1c02s478ij02cxxrlagk806hk2f0c2w5.pdf\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">one of 10 states<\/a> with binding, economy-wide climate targets, alongside California, Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. All face similar affordability pressures, strained grids, and federal headwinds. None has walked back its targets. If lawmakers, who are deliberating now, agree to water down the law with the imminent budget vote, New York would be first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is a stunning reversal for Governor Kathy Hochul, who was named to the TIME100 Climate list in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1872,192,79],"class_list":["post-644656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}