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Trump Dismantles Biden’s Climate Legacy While New York Chases Green Delusions

All told, New York lost access to tax dollars and its financial sugar daddy—the federal government.

by Francis Menton
May 14, 2025, 1:11 PM
in Energy, Money & Finance, News and Opinion, Politics, Waste and Fraud
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The first 100+ days of the second Trump administration (it’s now actually 113 days) have seen a near-total abandonment of the fantasy that this one country’s government can change the weather and “save the planet” by suppressing the use of hydrocarbon fuels and impoverishing the people. [emphasis, links added]

Biden administration “climate” and energy policies, amounting to thousands of pages in regulations and hundreds of billions of dollars in grants and subsidies to uneconomic energy projects, have been swiftly reversed.

Examples in just the past few weeks include:

  • The announcement by the Department of Energy yesterday (May 12) of no fewer than 47 regulatory reversals, covering everything from ovens to dehumidifiers to clothes washers and driers to shower heads to dishwashers and much, much more.
  • Rescission of hundreds of grants from the Department of Energy for so-called “green energy” projects.
  • Similar rescission of hundreds of grants from the EPA, supposedly to fund “greenhouse gas reduction” and “climate justice” initiatives.
  • Commencement by EPA of a process to undo the “Endangerment Finding” — a regulatory action that underlies essentially all climate and energy regulation by that agency — and some 30 other climate and energy actions of EPA.

And these are just examples. There are many more.

Sure, this was going to cost trillions of dollars, but it was almost all their money, not yours.

At this point, you would think that the blue states might take the hint.

As a blue state, you had thought that you were embarking on an energy “transition” with the full backing and support of the federal government, complete with its vast powers and its infinite checkbook.

Sure, this was going to cost trillions of dollars, but it was almost all their money, not yours. If somehow it all didn’t work out, you were not going to be the one on the hook.

Now, all that has changed.

In the blink of an eye, there is no more support to be had from the infinite deep pocket. Not only is the federal government no longer your partner and financial sugar daddy, but it is even taking steps to obstruct and hinder your efforts.

So, going forward, is there any point? As a lone blue state, you don’t remotely have the resources to expunge fossil fuels from your energy system on your own. Maybe, would it be best just to lie low for a few years and wait for the next friendly administration in Washington?

Well, if you are New York State, that is not how you react.

Your religious fervor is such that you are now prepared to proceed totally on your own to defy the laws of physics and thermodynamics.

Even as the federal government is telling New York to take a hike, here are some of the latest antics on the climate front from New York officials and climate activists:

  • The State’s 2025-26 budget just got enacted on Friday, May 9. ESG Today reported excitedly on Monday (May 12) that the budget includes “over $1 billion investment in decarbonization.”

Excerpt: New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the state’s 2025-2026 budget on Friday, which included more than $1 billion in climate change-focused investments, including funding to lower emissions from buildings and accelerate the rollout of electrified transportation. … Key climate-focused allocations in the new budget include $450 million targeting reductions in building emissions, including investments in energy-efficient retrofits and clean heating technologies like heat pumps, more than $200 million for thermal energy networks, $250 million to support electric school buses, fast-charging stations and a NYSERDA rebate program for installing EV charging stations, as well as $200 million for renewable energy expansion and grid modernization.

Nobody is impolite enough here to mention that $1 billion is chump change in the effort to get rid of hydrocarbon fuels. If you were serious about the effort, the number would be more like $1 trillion. But don’t worry, nobody reading this stuff has sufficient numeric competency to understand that.

  • New York City Comptroller Brad Lander — who is also a candidate for Mayor in the current election cycle — fancies himself a leader in the climate movement. Lander put out a statement on April 22 (“Earth Day”) setting forth his position:

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander decried threats from the Trump administration to dramatically roll back climate progress and stood with climate activists from New York Communities for Change, 350 NYC, and Fridays for Future to announce new actions by the Comptroller’s Office to reduce New York City’s emissions. … [T]o stand strong against federal rollbacks, Comptroller Lander is demanding more from the asset managers who manage funds for the New York City Employees Retirement System (NYCERS), Teachers Retirement System (TRS), and Board of Education Retirement System (BERS).

  • In a prior statement on March 26, reported in Net Zero Investor, Lander vowed that the City “will not retreat one inch” on its climate program, despite the actions of the Trump administration.
  • Our local environmental activist groups brook no dissent from climate orthodoxy. On March 31, a group of four climate activist organizations sued the State government to force faster progress on greenhouse gas reduction goals.

From New York Focus, March 31:

Four environmental and climate justice groups filed a lawsuit Monday in a state court, claiming that New York is “stonewalling necessary climate action in outright violation” of its legal obligations. By not releasing economy-wide emissions rules, the suit alleges, the state Department of Environmental Conservation, or DEC, is “defying the Legislature’s clear directive” and “prolonging New Yorkers’ exposure to air pollution … especially in disadvantaged communities.” It’s the first lawsuit to charge the state with failing to enforce the core mandate of its 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, or CLCPA: eliminating nearly all of New York’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

So, there is plenty of bluster from local politicians and activists.

But despite that, I can’t find a word as to how they plan to meet the greenhouse gas reduction and green energy mandates of the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, now that all federal backing is withdrawn.

As just one element, there was supposed to be 9,000 MW of offshore wind built to replace onshore fossil fuel power plants.

Now, the Trump administration is obstructing offshore wind development. I haven’t been able to find a word from any New York-elected or energy officials on how they plan to transition the energy supply if they can’t build the offshore wind facilities.

So we move forward with our officials in a state of bluff and bluster and denial, and no plan of any kind to meet the impossible mandates of the Climate Act.

We all know that this is doomed to failure, but it will likely be a couple of years before we see the failure unfold.

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Comments 3

  1. Liardet Guy says:
    6 months ago

    It’s extraordinary how deeply a delusion can grip.

  2. Spurwing Plover says:
    6 months ago

    Trump brings back Common Sense while New York chases Rainbows and Unicorns

  3. Steve Bunten says:
    6 months ago

    With these actions it won’t be long before the sign goes up that says “Will the last citizen leaving NY please turn out the lights!” These “leaders” are doing all they can to accelerate the number of citizens flee the state each year for saner locales.

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