The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, criticized the New York Climate Law, advanced by Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York Democrats, on Sunday as “delusional” and a “left -wing recipe for an economic and energy catastrophe.”
Zeldin’s spikes occur after the Trump administration stopped last week the Empire Wind Power project of the New York New Jersey Coast, a setback of the State’s effort to comply with the mandates of reduction of emissions under its very critical green energy law.
“New York climatic objectives are not equipped with any feasible plan to achieve them.
New York foolishly prohibited “safe extraction” or natural gas, gas connections in the construction of new buildings and gas stoves, while pressing to eliminate the sale of vehicles with gasoline and blocking the construction of new pipes, he said.
“This is a leftist recipe for an economic and energetic catastrophe. The idea that we can replace the base forms of intermittent power such as the wind is simply delusional,” said the former Long Island congressman, a Republican who ran ran rankers.
Other conventional energy experts agree that New York has to rework climate law to be more practical and less dependent on solar and wind energy, and to eliminate unattainable mandates for carbon emissions free.
According to the Plan, New York must reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2030 and have 100% zero emissions electricity by 2040.
The rules require that the state of the empire generate 9,000 megawatts of wind energy in the high seas by 2035, 6,000 megawatts of solar energy by 2025 and build 3000 megawatts of energy storage by 2030.
John Howard, former interim president of the Public Service Commission, said it is time to return to the drawing table.
“We can place our arms. It doesn’t mean we’re going to fly,” said Howard. “We face reality.”
The climatic law was approved by the then Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature administered by Democrat in 2019. He said that the law was “well intentional” but excessive optimistic, simply naive.
“The circumstances have changed,” said Howard. “Discover what we are going to do.”
To further complicate things, favorable tax credits for renewable energy to promote solar and wind energy could be completely cut or eliminated in the next budget approved by President Trump and the Congress administered by Republicans, he said.
New York residents can also feel the results of the climatic law in their wallets.
The public services giant with Edison recently proposes two -digit rates increases for gas and energy invoices, blaming the walks in part at the cost of complying with green mandates.
New York Democrats have joined Republicans to urge the governor to pump brakes in the timeline, forcing New Yorkers to change cars with gasoline to electric cars without emissions.
New Yorkers are also aligning in opposition to boxes of new power storage facilities of lithium ions planned in the large apple and beyond, about the fear that they can cause toxic infermen in residential neighborhoods.
Some critics warned that the green energy law was wrong from the beginning.
“There must be an honest discussion about energy mandates and whether they are real or not,” said Gavin Donohue, president and CEO of New York independent energy producers.
“There must be an honest discussion about the impracticability of the law.”
Donohue, who served in the State’s Climate Action Council, complained that there was a rigorous analysis of whether the deadlines for moving fossil fuel to renewable energy such as solar energy and wind were attainable.
“We have a state that does not emit permits for fossil fuels,” he said.
Hochul on Sunday was not commitment to the modification of climate law, which would surely face a violent reaction from left -handed environmentalists.
She criticized the decision of Trump’s team to suspend the Empire Wind project that was previously approved and under construction.
“The governor has led with the example in the New York Oncoing transition to a clean energy economy: we have one of the cleanest grids in the nation, with 50% zero electricity and is a gold standard in reliability,” said Hochul Paul Demichele spokesman.
“The governor acknowledges that we can only continue to serve as a good example if the lights remain on and the costs are low, and she will use all the tools at their disposal to ensure that happens. And that includes the electric operation allowed fully allowed allowed allowed to allow thousands of jobs at risk and having a detrimental impact on the safe, affordable and reliable operation of the New York electricity network.”
But Zeldin said it is the Trump administration that demands a more balanced energy and environment approach.
“Trump’s EPA understands that we can and must protect the environment and grow the economy. We are focused on protecting human health and the environment while we drive the great American return,” he said.