Governor Kathy Hochul’s speech at the World University Games, in Lake Placid, underscored the importance of her plan to put New York State on a new energy path.
, stood center-ice on the fabled Lake Placid hockey rink on Thursday night, welcoming fourteen hundred athletes from around the world to the thirty-first World University Games—Olympics for college kids—winter edition. Flags of the nations had been paraded on toboggans, aerialists had descended on wires from the rafters, and now the Governor was beaming in the spotlight.
All of this served to underscore the importance of what Hochul had done earlier in the week, in her State of the State address, when she pledged to support a truly wide-ranging and ambitious plan to rein in New York’s carbon emissions and put the state on a new energy path. New York has the tenth-largest economy in the world, just ahead of South Korea’s, so Hochul’s plans matter, and in this case they are drawing praise from environmentalists—and growing opposition from the fossil-fuel industry.
In any event, the gas ban is only a part of Hochul’s program. More important is a broad program called Cap and Invest, which would set enforceable and steadily declining caps on carbon pollution statewide.
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