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Hochul can achieve NY’s green-energy dreams — just follow India’s lead
Last month, when my work took me to India, I learned a surprising lesson: On green energy, the “developing world” is light-years ahead of New York.
And the current crisis at the Strait of Hormuz, where a fossil-fuel chokepoint has sent New Yorkers’ costs soaring, puts the Empire State’s energy airball in sharp focus.
Gov. Kathy Hochul has tacitly acknowledged Albany’s failure to grapple with the practical realities of its insistence on the need to wholly transition the state’s economy from fossil fuels to renewables.
Now she’s trying a new strategy: Memory-holing New York’s flagship 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.
Ironically, in the years since that bill passed, the state’s dependence on fossil fuels has only increased, so badly have our leaders flubbed the green-energy side of the equation.
Hence her election-year CLCPA U-turn, despite the continued need for new energy sources.
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Halfway around the world, the country best known to many New Yorkers as the origin of street-food memes is leading the way on high-tech renewables.
Meanwhile, the state that engineered the subway system, the Empire State Building and the Erie Canal has........