Members of the state’s Climate Action Council last week voted to move forward with a draft climate scoping plan for how New York in the coming decades will reduce greenhouses gases through every facet of the state’s economy.The plan, which should be released for public comment by the end of this year, culminates two years and countless hours of discussions and debate about how to reduce carbon emissions from homes, cars, electricity and just about every facet of life through the middle of the 21st century.
Climate Action Council members began working soon after the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act was passed and signed into law. That legislation puts New York in the forefront nationally of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas-causing carbon emissions in order to combat climate change.
The CLPA calls for a 70 percent reduction in…