{"id":3562,"date":"2026-02-20T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/?p=3562"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:37:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:37:45","slug":"wheres-new-york-on-climate-goals-falling-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/?p=3562","title":{"rendered":"Where\u2019s New York on climate goals? Falling behind."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The EPA<\/span> last week revoked the endangerment finding<\/a>, which underpins the U.S. government\u2019s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. This rollback has upended federal tailpipe emissions regulations, which the administration says will curb vehicle prices and save Americans as much as $1<\/span>.3<\/span> trillion by\u00a02055<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But the EPA<\/span>\u2019s own analysis<\/a> tells a\u00a0different story, The Guardian reports<\/a>. It estimates Americans will rack up more than $1<\/span>.4<\/span> trillion as they buy more fuel, need more repairs, and face increased traffic and noise \u2014 essentially negating those touted savings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And it\u2019s unlikely that U.S. automakers will backtrack on vehicle efficiency like the EPA<\/span> wants, experts tell The New York Times<\/a>. The rest of the world is still moving toward electric vehicles, so cars that use more gasoline are the opposite of what other countries \u2014 and many Americans \u2014 will\u00a0buy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Fake public comments are clean energy\u2019s latest threat<\/strong><\/p>\n

As if clean energy didn\u2019t have enough challenges to deal\u00a0with.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Last June, Southern California\u2019s top air-quality authority rejected a\u00a0plan that would have pushed the region away from gas appliances. Regulators received tens of thousands of comments opposing the plan, but a\u00a0Los Angeles Times investigation found<\/a> at least 20<\/span>,000<\/span> of them appear to have been AI-generated. The agency\u2019s staffers also reached out to some alleged commenters, and at least three said they hadn\u2019t written a\u00a0comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The incident is similar to what Canary Media\u2019s Kathiann M. Kowalski reported on<\/a> earlier this month. In Ohio, state regulators may reject a\u00a0solar farm that received dozens of public comments opposing it. But as the project\u2019s developer found, and Kowalski verified, more than 30<\/span> of those commenters appear to have used fake names or lied about living in the county where the solar farm will be\u00a0built.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Clean energy news to know this\u00a0week<\/h2>\n

Another coal-plant prop-up: <\/strong>Documents indicate that the Trump administration will move to let coal plants emit more hazardous pollutants, including mercury, in an attempt to juice the industry. (<\/em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>) <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chillin\u2019 with Duke Energy: <\/strong>Canary reporter Elizabeth Ouzts let North Carolina utility Duke Energy remotely lower her thermostat in exchange for bill credits, and even in a\u00a0recent cold spell, Ouzts says she found the savings meaningful. (<\/em>Canary Media<\/em><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Illinois\u2019 nuclear reversal:<\/strong> Illinois Gov. JB<\/span> Pritzker (D) calls for the state to build at least 2<\/span>\u00a0gigawatts of nuclear capacity, just a\u00a0month after lifting the state\u2019s long-standing moratorium on nuclear construction. (<\/em>Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cancer Alley\u2019s new threat: <\/strong>Louisiana residents already saturated with petrochemical pollution now face a\u00a0wave of \u200b\u201c<\/span>blue ammonia\u201d plants, which will burn fossil fuels and potentially saddle them with even more emissions. (<\/em>Floodlight<\/em><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Power surge: <\/strong>2025<\/span> was a\u00a0tough year for clean energy in the U.S., but grid batteries still set another installation record as more solar power came online and power demand rose. (<\/em>Canary Media<\/em><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The EPA last week revoked the endangerment finding, which underpins the U.S. government\u2019s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. This rollback has upended federal tailpipe emissions regulations, which the administration says will curb vehicle prices and save Americans as much as $1.3 trillion by\u00a02055. But the EPA\u2019s own analysis tells a\u00a0different story, The Guardian reports. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-green-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3564,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions\/3564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}