New York won't come close to its "mandatory" goal of slashing gas emissions by 40% by 2030, let alone achieving 100% zero-carbon-emission electricity by 2040, but the state will inflict needless expense until it faces up to that fact.
The longer they're at loggerheads over policy issues, the greater the chance some power player will admit to these dangers and reopen the fiscal debate.
The United States Postal Service “lost $9.5 billion shuffling paper around the country in fiscal year 2024” and is projecting another “$6.9 billion loss in fiscal year 2025,” so The Free Press’ Charles Lane wonders, “would privatization be so terrible?”