For years, state leaders have promised aggressive emissions cuts at little cost. -
Bjorn LomborgNow,
reality is crashing the party, and the state has been caught out in that fib.
Facing a court-imposed Friday deadline, New York has effectively conceded that its green goals would pose
“costs consumers simply cannot bear.” The state’s
2019 climate legislation made grand, sweeping promises.
- It demanded 70% renewable electricity and a 40% emissions cut from 1990 levels by 2030,
- escalating to a zero-emission power system by 2040 and
- net zero economy-wide by 2050.
Legislators,
intoxicated by the myth that wind and solar are the “cheapest” energy sources, ignored warnings from analysts who pointed out that these intermittent power sources are
only potentially cheap when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing...
