{"id":379790,"date":"2025-11-15T03:12:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/379790\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T03:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:12:23","slug":"dont-be-fooled-by-kathy-hochuls-latest-pause-of-another-toxic-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/379790\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t be fooled by Kathy Hochul’s latest pause of another toxic law"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have to give a wobbly Yay? to Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s pause<\/a> of an idiotic green mandate, since her record tells you she\u2019ll let the pain kick in once the next election\u2019s safely over.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the gov officially put off her ban on natural gas in new homes and buildings under seven stories, yielding to upstate Assembly Democrats\u2019 concern that the mandate has hiked construction costs threatening . . . their re-election chances.<\/p>\n

But voters have every reason to believe the mandate will return once Hochul\u2019s past the 2026 elections, just as her congestion-toll pause ended after the 2024 elections. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not like she\u2019s shown the least sign of taking up our challenge to ax New York\u2019s insane \u201cclimate\u201d laws<\/a> completely.<\/p>\n

Previously due to take effect on Jan. 1, the All-Electric Building Act pretends that forcing a switch to electric heat and cooking will reduce greenhouse-gas emissions \u2014 even though New York\u2019s electric supply relies on burning more fossil fuels than it did a decade ago.<\/p>\n

Worse: Needlessly upping demand for electricity (as the state\u2019s electric-vehicle mandates also do) stresses the transmission grid, while other \u201cclimate\u201d laws endangers the reliability of the power supply by forcing it do depend on highly-variable solar and wind generation \u2014 which is also more expensive.<\/p>\n

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In other gestures to energy realism, Hochul is trying to encourage new nuclear plants and even recently OK\u2019d the Williams\/NESE natural gas pipeline, which New Jersey regulators also un-blocked \u2014 with both states yielding to pressure from the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

New York got stuck with the insane Climate Action Plan when then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo<\/a> was eyeing a future presidential run.<\/p>\n

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It never made sense except as a symbolic trophy to impress Democratic primary voters, but that\u2019s been enough for Hochul to largely keep supporting it, even as it forces utility bills higher without doing anything to save the planet. <\/p>\n

If the gov were serious about ensuring long-term affordability for average New Yorkers \u2014 especially for young people wanting to own a home or to rent an apartment at a reasonable price \u2014 she\u2019d push for outright repeal of the All-Electric Building Act come January, then follow with as much rollback of the Climate Action agenda as she can manage.<\/p>\n

But with her eye on fending off a left-wing primary challenger as she seeks re-election, all she\u2019ll do is delay the pain.<\/p>\n

Voters shouldn\u2019t be fooled: The only way to get long-term affordable energy is to evict every Democratic officeholder you can. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have to give a wobbly Yay? to Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s pause of an idiotic green mandate, since…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":379791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[852,20184,5229,285,9886,7033,4691,24071,5495,182164,5371,3272,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-379790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-affordable-housing","9":"tag-albany","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-climate-change","12":"tag-construction","13":"tag-democrats","14":"tag-editorial","15":"tag-electricity","16":"tag-energy","17":"tag-green-new-deal","18":"tag-kathy-hochul","19":"tag-legislature","20":"tag-new-york","21":"tag-new-york-city","22":"tag-newyork","23":"tag-newyorkcity","24":"tag-ny","25":"tag-nyc","26":"tag-opinion","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-united-states-of-america","29":"tag-unitedstates","30":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","31":"tag-us","32":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115551531571280445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}