NY Gov. Hochul 'Must Sign' Climate Change Superfund Act

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Jessica Corbett is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.

After what New Yorkers and environmental campaigners called a 'betrayal' by Gov. Kathy Hochul earlier this week, the Democrat is now under pressure to sign the Climate Change Superfund Act, which state legislators finally passed early Saturday morning. Noting that the 95-46 New York State Assembly vote happened after 3:00am and followed the Senate passing the bill, Empire State Indivisible declared Saturday that 'there can be no further delay! Gov.

' 'But one 'environmental thing' a year won't meet the climate crisis at the speed it's racing past us, especially when long-fought wins like congestion pricing can be demolished in an instant,' Moore stressed. 'Without aggressively transitioning New York off of fossil fuels and creating the green jobs of the future, the Legislature calls it quits on our state's survival.

 

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