On July 18, 2019 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), which establishes targets for decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing renewable electricity production, and improving energy efficiency. This page lists posts describing various aspects of this legislation. I have summarized the schedule, implementation components, and provide links to the legislation itself at CLCPA Summary Implementation Requirements.
In addition to the technical articles on the Climate Act listed here, I have prepared a simpler summary designed to inform the general public about how expensive, risky, and intrusive it will be.
CLCPA Targets
The Citizens Budget Commission developed an overview of the CLCPA targets in Green in Perspective: 6 Facts to Help New Yorkers Understand the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. The goals of the law are truly aspirational:
Reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions:
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- Reduce GHG emissions to 60 percent of 1990 emissions levels in 2030;
- Generate zero GHG emissions from electricity production by 2040; and
- Ensure GHG emissions are less than 15 percent of 1990 emissions levels in 2050, with offsets to reduce net emissions to zero.
- GHG offsets means that for every ton emitted into the air one ton is removed via GHG capture of some sort. For example, a company or individual can pay a landowner to leave trees standing that would otherwise be removed or plant additional trees to offset GHG emissions.
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Increase renewable electricity:
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- Increase renewable sources to 70 percent by 2030; and
Develop or support:
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- 9 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind electric generation by 2035;
- 6 GW of distributed photovoltaic solar generation by 2025; and
- 3 GW of energy storage capacity by 2030.
- Conserve 185 trillion British thermal units (TBTUs) of annual end-use energy use by 2025, of which at least 20 percent should be from energy efficiency improvements in disadvantaged communities.
- The CLCPA also requires between 35 percent and 40 percent of spending on clean energy or efficiency programs be in disadvantaged communities and mandates an air monitoring program in at least four such communities.
This page lists all the posts on the CLCPA. The links below categorize the posts for your information because there are so many.
These posts generally describe the CLCPA and its benefits.
This law does not provide for an analysis to determine if it can be implemented affordably and with no impact on reliability. Suffice to say that the lack of a feasibility study before picking the emission reduction and renewable energy targets makes for a target rich environment.
The integration analysis develops scenarios from the advisory panel recommended strategies to support the Climate Action Council scoping plan. This page lists posts addressing the integration analysis
New York State Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act Costs
This page summarizes the results of my calculations of the observed costs of the environmental initiatives of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in general and the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act in particular. I also provide links to estimates by others outside the Administration as I find them.
The CLCPA mandates regulations to support the implementation of the law. This page provides links to my posts on those regulations.
This page describes the implementation strategies proposed by the Climate Action Council advisory panels.
The difference between weather and climate is constantly mistaken by Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) advocates. This page references my evaluations of climatic effects that turned out to be weather events and examples by other authors.
Inconvenient Aspects of the CLCPA
Thomas Sowell points out differences between those on the right and left. According to Sowell, the left believes: “there is nothing in human nature that would cause us to be unhappy. It’s the fact that we have the wrong institutions.” This as opposed to the right who believes: “Man is flawed from Day One, and that there are no solutions, there are only trade-offs. And whatever you do to deal with man’s flaws, it creates another problem.” I believe this difference is also the same as that between environmental activists and pragmatists and leads to inconvenient aspects of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA).
This page provides links to Climate Action Council and advisory panel meetings.
This page provides links to the comments I submitted.
Accelerated Energy Growth and Community Benefit Act
This legislation provides expedited permitting for renewable energy developments.
CLCPA Posts
- Air Source Heat Pumps In New York April 2, 2019
- NYS Climate and Community Protection Act Rationale April 15, 2019
- How Much Will CCPA Affect Global Warming April 19 2019
- Pragmatic Take on the Climate and Community Protection Act June 2 2019
- It is Worse than I Thought June 24, 2019
- CLCPA Solar and Wind Capacity Requirements August 12, 2019
- CLCPA Energy Storage Requirements August 20, 2019
- NYS Public Participation Workshop on Regional Approaches to Climate and Transportation October 28, 2019
- October 28 2019 Buffalo NYS Public Participation Workshop on Regional Approaches to Climate and Transportation October 29, 2019
- CLCPA Renewables Needed for Doubled Electric Load December 1, 2019
- NYISO Winter Peak Analysis Implications to CLCPA December 9, 2019
- NYISO Wind Generation Record Publicity December 22, 2019
- Citizens Budget Commission Getting Greener – Findings January 6, 2020
- Citizens Budget Commission Getting Greener – How Much Renewable Energy? January 7, 2020
- Citizens Budget Commission Getting Greener – Energy Storage Estimate January 7, 2020
- Citizens Budget Commission Getting Greener Report Summary January 7, 2020
- NYISO Climate Impact Study Energy Storage Requirements January 18 2020
- CLCPA Energy Storage Costs January 22, 2020
- New York Clean Energy Dashboard January 24, 2020
- NYSERDA Toward a Clean Energy Future – A Strategic Outlook 2020-2023 February 20, 2020
- NY Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act Emissions Targets February 27, 2020
- NY GHG Emissions Status and Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act Targets February 28, 2020
- 3 March 2020 New York Climate Action Council Meeting March 4, 2020
- EPRI Electrification Scenarios for New York’s Energy Future March 5, 2020
- Accelerated Energy Growth and Community Benefit Act: Electric System Concerns April 4, 2020
- Accelerated Energy Growth and Community Benefit Act: Additional Concerns April 8, 2020
- The Futility of New York Energy Policy April 9, 2020
- CLCPA NYS Wind Energy Resource May 5, 2020
- Part 242 Comments on the Regulatory Impact Statement June 25, 2020 – This discusses the common rationale between the CLCPA and the DEC CO2 Budget Trading Rule
- 24 June, 2020 New York Climate Action Council Meeting July 1, 2020
- NY Climate Act Implementation – De-Carbonization Pathways Overview, July 2, 2020
- NY Climate Act Implementation – IEA Special Report on Clean Energy Innovation July 5, 2020
- NY Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act “Benefits” July 14, 2020
- NY Climate Act Implementation – Electric Generation De-Carbonization Pathways July 20, 2020
- Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act Value of Carbon July 21, 2020
- Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act Implementation Risk Management August 3, 2020
- Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act 1990 Emissions Inventory August 14, 2020
- Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act Emissions Report Timing August 19, 2020
- Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act 1990 Emissions Inventory Requirements August 25, 2020
- Comments on the DEC Webinar on the CLCPA Value of Carbon September 3, 2020
- 24 August 2020 New York Climate Action Council Meeting September 6, 2020
- Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act Climate Action Council Power Generation Advisory Panel September 7, 2020
- Carbon Price Needed to Fund Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act Reductions September 8, 2020
- Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act Kick-Start the Economy September 11, 2020
- Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act Recommended Reading, September 25, 2020
- Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act Ultimate Problem September 27, 2020
- September 16 2020 CLCPA Power Generation Advisory Panel Meeting October 1, 2020
- Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act Defeatism October 12, 2020
- NYISO Climate Change Impact Studies October 16, 2020
- Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act and the NYISO Climate Change Impact Study, October 18, 2020
- 8 October 2020 New York Climate Action Council Meeting October 19, 2020
- Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act Dispatchable Emission Free Resources Feasibility October 21, 2020
- My Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act Part 496 Comments October 26, 2020
- Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act Energy Efficiency Citizen Science November 13, 2020
- AREGCBA Draft Standards and Conditions Comments November 16, 2020
- My Comments on the New York Value of Carbon Guidance Document November 25, 2020
- Response to My Comments on Part 496 – CLCPA 1990 Emissions December 27, 2020
- CLCPA Implementation Strategies Overview December 28, 2020
- CLCPA Deep Carbonization Workshop December 30, 2020
- CLCPA Potential Savings of Future Global Warming December 31, 2020
- Comments on CCPA Transportation Advisory Panel Implementation Strategies January 6, 2021
- CLCPA Cumulative Environmental Impacts January 8, 2021
- Comments on CLCPA Land Use Advisory Panel Strategies January 9, 2021
- CLCPA Power Generation Advisory Panel Peaking Power Plants January 14, 2021
- CLCPA Energy-Intensive and Trade-Exposed Industries Advisory Panel Strategies Comments January 18, 2021
- CLCPA Con Ed Peaking Power Plant Solution January 19, 2021
- CLCPA Agriculture and Forestry Advisory Panel Strategies Comments January 20, 2021
- CLCPA Energy Efficiency and Housing Advisory Panel Strategy Comments January 21, 2021
- CLCPA Power Generation Advisory Panel Strategies Comment January 22, 2021
- CLCPA Transmission Ancillary Services – Somebody Else’s Problem January 23, 2021
- CLCPA Borrego Solar Rutland Center Solar 1 January 24, 2021
- My Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth and Community Benefit Act Comments on the Power Grid Study January 25, 2021
- New York’s Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act – published at Watts Up With That February 2, 2021
- Energy Efficiency and Housing Advisory Panel Initial Recommendations February 5, 2021
- NY Value of Carbon Cost Effectiveness February 8, 2021 – Warning long and wonky
- CLCPA Simple Value of Carbon Reduction Benefits February 9, 2021
- CLCPA Power Generation Advisory Panel Public Input Session 1 February 13, 2021
- CLCPA Initial Thoughts on Texas Energy Debacle February 18, 2021
- Albany Times Union “Could a Texas-size power failure hit New York?” February 19, 2021
- CLCPA Non-Responsiveness to Public Input February 25, 2021
- CLCPA NYISO Resilience Study and the Texas Energy Debacle – Reliability Resources March 5, 2021
- CLCPA Unpublished Letter to the Editor of the Syracuse Post Standard March 8, 2021
- New York Value of Carbon Calculation of Benefits Issue March 18, 2021
- Texas Lessons to Keep the Lights On Dangers March 19, 2021
- CLCPA Generation Advisory Panel Draft Enabling Initiatives March 21, 2021
- CLCPA Off-shore Wind Resiliency March 28, 2021
- CLCPA Lesson from the German Energiewende April 1, 2021
- Evaluation of Cornell Report “Can renewable generation, energy storage and energy efficient technologies enable carbon neutral energy transition” in New York April 5, 2021
- CLCPA State of Climate Science May 4, 2021
- CLCPA Status 12 May 2021 May 12, 2021
- CLCPA Advisory Panel Emissions May 13, 2021
- Agriculture and Forestry Advisory Panel Enabling Strategies Submitted to Climate Action Council May 14, 2021
- Waste Advisory Panel Enabling Strategies Submitted to Climate Action Council May 17,2021
- Energy-Intensive and Trade-Exposed Industries Advisory Panel Enabling Strategies Submitted to Climate Action Council May 18, 2021
- CLCPA and the NYISO May 19, 2021
- Transportation Advisory Panel Enabling Strategies Submitted to Climate Action Council May 24, 2021
- Land Use & Local Government Advisory Panel Enabling Strategies Submitted to Climate Action Council May 25, 2021https://pragmaticenvironmentalistofnewyork.blog/2021/06/06/power-generation-advisory-panel-enabling-strategies-submitted-to-climate-action-council/
- Energy Efficiency & Housing Advisory Panel Enabling Strategies Submitted to Climate Action Council May 31, 2021
- Power Generation Advisory Panel Enabling Strategies Submitted to Climate Action Council June 6, 2021
- Summary of Enabling Strategies Submitted to the Climate Action Council June 10, 2021
- CLCPA Emissions and the Value of Carbon, June 11, 2021
- ORES Heritage Wind Decision June 17, 2021
- CLCPA Adaptation and Resilience Recommendations June 19, 2021
- Update on CLCPA Emissions and the Value of Carbon June 27, 2021
- CLCPA Heat Pump Propaganda June 29, 2021
- CLCPA Climate Justice Working Group July 5, 2021
- CLCPA Climate Justice Working Group Presentation 28 June 2021 July 8, 2021
- CLCPA Electric Vehicle Propaganda July 26, 2021
- CLCPA Target Status and NYSERDA Patterns and Trends Energy Use August 2, 2021
- CLCPA Feasibility Relative to NYSERDA Patterns and Trends August 4, 2021
- CLCPA Reliability Planning Speaker Session August 16, 2021
- CLCPA Reliability Planning Speaker Session Follow-Up August 24, 2021
- CLCPA Electric System Targets August 29, 2021
- Prediction for the New York Climate Action Council’s Next Meeting September 4, 2021
- CLCPA 2030 Electric System Target Feasibility September 8, 2021
- Forecast Verification for the New York Climate Action Council Meeting September 17, 2021
- CLCPA Lessons from Europe September 21, 2021
- The CLCPA’s Fundamental Flaw September 23, 2021
- CLCPA “Winging It” is a Catastrophe Waiting to Happen October 11, 2021
- CLCPA October 2021 First Impression of Costs and Benefits October 14, 2021
- CLCPA Integration Analysis New Findings October 18, 2021
- CLCPA Environmental Hypocrisy – Offshore Wind Cable Water Quality Impacts October 22, 2021
- Yet Another Industrial Solar Issue October 23, 2021
- Climate Act Presentation to the New York Propane Gas Association October 2021 October 26, 2021
- Climate Act Integration Analysis Inhalable Particulate Health Benefits October 29, 2021
- CLCPA Integration Assessment Cost Estimates November 8, 2021
- CLCPA Integration Assessment Technology Aspirations November 9, 2021
- CLCPA Integration Analysis Reliability November 10, 2021
- CLCPA Integration Analysis Health Benefit Estimates November 12, 2021
- CLCPA Integration Analysis Moral from a Children’s Story November 13, 2021
- CLCPA Integration Analysis Cumulative Environmental Impacts November 19, 2021
- Recommended CLCPA Reading – Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters November 21, 2021
- Even More CLCPA Industrial Solar issues November 22, 2021
- CLCPA Scoping Plan First Look November 23, 2021
- CLCPA Implications of the Trelina Solar Project Approval December 2, 2021
- Climate Action Council 11/30/21 Meeting Unresolved Issue Documentation December 5, 2021
- Climate Action Council 11/30/21 Meeting Unresolved Controversial Issues December 7, 2021
- Climate Action Council 11/30/21 Meeting: Scoping Plan Chapter Overview December 8, 2021
- Climate Action Council Draft Scoping Plan Consumer Affordability Feedback December 12, 2021
- CLCPA Scoping Plan Net Direct Cost Estimates December 13, 2021
- Citizens Guide to the Climate Act December 14, 2021
- Review of Costs in Green Scheme: The Climate Action Council’s Climate Transition Cost Analysis December 15, 2021
- New Yorkers for Clean Energy: What’s the Deal with Renewable Energy & Agriculture? December 16, 2021
- Climate Act – Moral Obligation to Developing Countries December 17, 2021
- CLCPA Residential Heating Cost Assumptions December 19, 2021
- CLCPA Interpreting Societal Cost of Avoided Economic Damages Caused by Climate Change, December 23, 2021
- CLCPA Tier 4 Residential Electricity Rate Costs December 26, 2021
- CLCPA Draft Scoping Plan December 30, 2021
- CLCPA Games – 2021 GHG emissions report December 31, 2021
- Climate Act Scoping Plan Electrification Cost Comparison January 13, 2022
- Climate Act Scoping Plan Active Transportation Benefit January 15, 2022
- Bringing Britain’s woes to New York? January 16, 2022
- Climate Act Scoping Plan Benefits January 18, 2022
- Climate Act Emission Reductions in Context January 20, 2022
- Scoping Plan Reliability Feasibility – Scope of the Problem January 22, 2022
- Scoping Plan Reliability Feasibility – Renewable Variability January 24, 2022
- Climate Act Wood Burning Ban? January 26, 2022
- CLCPA Residential Heating Cost Assumptions Update January 28, 2022
- New York State Net Zero Plan Summary January 31, 2022
- Climate Act Draft Scoping Plan Overview – Next Steps February 5, 2022
- New York Climate Act: Is Anyone Listening to the Experts? February 7, 2022
- Scoping Plan Reliability Feasibility – Renewable Variability Costs February 8, 2022
- Climate Act Scoping Plan Cost Documentation Failures February 10, 2022
- Limits to Green Energy Are Becoming Much Clearer February 12, 2022
- Climate Act Draft Scoping Plan Comment on Residential Heating Electrification February 15, 2022
- Nuclear New York Comments on Proposed Tier 4 Contracts of NYSERDA February 17, 2022
- The Real Cost of the Climate Act February 19, 2022
- Air Permit Applications and the Climate Act February 21, 2022
- NY Business Council Climate Act Scoping Plan Overview February 23, 2022
- Climate Act Upstream Emissions February 28, 2022
- Integration Analysis Transportation Incremental Benefits Associated with Scenario 4 March 7, 2022
- New York Climate Action Council Plan for 2022 March 10, 2022
- Scoping Plan Renewable Energy Resource Availability Analysis March 12, 2022
- Scoping Plan Cost Obfuscation March 14, 2022
- Astoria Gas Turbine Power Replacement Project and the Climate Act March 16, 2022
- Status of Garnet Energy Center Application March 18, 2022
- New York 10GW Solar Roadmap’s Disconnect from Reality March 20, 2022
- New York Needs $15 Billion in Climate Funding Now – Not! March 21, 2022
- Climate Act Public Hearing Announcement March 22, 2022
- New York Climate Act: What the Experts are Saying Now March 25, 2022
- New York Climate Act: Cost Estimate Sleight of Hand March 27, 2022
- Climate Act Scoping Plan Recommended Reading April 2, 2022
- Pragmatic Principles and the Climate Act April 7, 2022
- Climate Act Scoping Plan Overview Presentation – Affordability and Reliability April 8, 2022
- Pragmatic Approach to Climate Change Policy April 10, 2022
- ISO-New England Expert Speaks Out About Net-Zero Transition Risks April 12, 2022
- Guest Post: Failure of the Climate Change Scoping Plan to Meet the Requirements of the Climate Act April 15, 2022
- Climate Act Draft Scoping Plan Scenario Components April 16, 2022
- New Pragmatic Principle for the Climate Act April 19, 2022
- Is New York State Coming After Our Furnaces? April 20, 2022
- Caiazza Draft Scoping Plan Verbal Comments 26 April 2022 April 22, 2022
- Another Example of Gamesmanship in the Climate Act Integration Analysis April 24, 2022
- Climate Act Implementing Legislation April 27, 2022
- Climate Act Benefits Greater than Costs Claim April 29, 2022
- New York State Electric School Buses May 5, 2022
- Capital Tonight Home Heating May 6, 2022
- Lights Out: The CLCPA and New York’s Energy Future May 8, 2022
- Climate Act Draft Scoping Plan Building Sector Scenarios May 14, 2022
- Core Error of Climate Movement May 15, 2022
- Climate Act Public Meeting in Syracuse May 17, 2022
- Public Hearing on All-Electric Buildings May 19, 2022
- All Electric Building Act – Affordability May 22, 2022
- Climate Act and New York State 2021 Wind Resources May 24, 2022
- Draft Scoping Plan Cost Documentation Announcement May 27, 2022
- Climate Act Benefits Greater than Costs Claim Numbers Update May 30, 2022
- Draft Scoping Plan Comments Submitted in May May 31, 2022
- Climate Act Draft Scoping Plan Transportation Sector Scenarios June 1, 2022
- Draft Scoping Plan Comments on Electric Vehicles June 3, 2022
- Guest Post Draft Scoping Plan Comments on Practicality and Others June 4, 2022
- Climate Action Council Requirements in the Climate Act June 5, 2022
- Reconcile NYISO and Integration Analysis Electric Generation Projections Comment June 7, 2022
- Draft Scoping Plan Carbon Pricing Strategies Comment June 9, 2022
- Capital Tonight Electric Vehicles June 10, 2022
- Draft Scoping Plan EV Cost Comment June 12, 2022
- Climate Action Council Meeting 5/26/22: Perception of Public Hearing Comments June 14, 2022
- Draft Scoping Plan Electric Generating Retirement Assumptions June 16, 2022
- Draft Scoping Plan Comments by a Business Owner June 21, 2022
- Climate Act Draft Scoping Plan Benefits Comment June 22, 2022
- Climate Act Draft Scoping Plan Hydrogen Comment June 23, 2022
- Climate Act Mandates that must be Considered in the Scoping Plan June 24, 2022
- Draft Scoping Plan Transportation Incremental Benefits Associated with Scenario 4 Comment June 25, 2022