r/climatechange • u/Icy-Feeling-528 • 1d ago
BREAKING: New York passes climate change Superfund law for greenhouse gas emissions
https://landmarkworld.substack.com/p/climate-change-superfund-new-york-kathy-hochul-greenhouse-gas-emissions-fossil-fuel-companies?r=67vtx&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=trueFinally, some legislation that has some teeth.
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u/Hour-Watch8988 1d ago
But they also create sprawl by blocking new housing in the city, which also makes it unaffordable.
History will not look back kindly on NYC’s current leadership.
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u/megamx 1d ago
The point of manhattan is not to cram more and more people in and keep going higher and higher until traffic and sidewalks are unmanageable.
Also unpopular opinion, not every city should be “affordable” for all classes. You don’t see me complaining that I can’t live in the nicest parts of London or paris where price per sq. Ft is $4500 per sq ft
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u/Hour-Watch8988 1d ago
NYC has plenty of space to build more housing. Lots of low density in the outer boroughs, and absolutely no reason more homes can’t go in Manhattan — most people don’t drive there.
NYC will always need lower-income people to staff its restaurants, make its transit work, clean its offices, etc. Forcing those people to live outside the city lengthens commutes, makes non-car trips harder, and increases emissions.
Don’t pretend to give a shit about the climate if you help block infill housing.
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u/King_Swift21 1d ago
Also, to add to your point, it's been proven that more housing, whether that's affordable housing and allowing more single family households to be built in the first place, decreases the cost of rent, so more housing being built (especially affordable housing, goes a long way).
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u/Hour-Watch8988 13h ago
Yep! And another point is that we can’t get good national climate policy if climate deniers keep winning the presidency because blue states haven’t built enough housing and keep losing population to red states
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u/Brief-Objective-3360 1d ago
NIMBYS have done more damage to this earth than many care to admit
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u/King_Swift21 1d ago
NIMBYs are apart of the problem and it's way past time they start getting called out on their BS.
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u/JanSnolo 1d ago
Those who got rich by wrecking our home should help pay to clean it up. That’s just common sense.
SCOTUS is sure to kill this though :/
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u/callmesandycohen 1d ago
$100 on no NYS citizen ever affected by climate change will see this money. Instead, it will be cooped by some ridiculous new program and pissed away. None of it will be spent to compensate victims or make the state right again.
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u/TheRealBobbyJones 21h ago
It's not meant to compensate "victims". It's meant to reduce the impact of climate change. Which should reduce the numbers of "victims". Honestly idk if victim is even the right word.
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u/Tricky_Lab_5170 7h ago
This law has a lot of protections in it. A lot of it will funnel through the DEC though.
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u/mcot2222 17h ago
They can start with installing 1,000 DC fast chargers in NYC. That would have some teeth. The fast charging in NY is pathetic.
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u/redditorannonimus 7h ago
Collect $75 billion from oil and gas companies… meaning consumers will pay 75 billion on top of what they pay now so that the NY billionaires get more money through their companies for ‘mitigating’ climate change damages
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u/Chem76Eng85 1d ago
Who are the real polluters pumping green house gases into the atmosphere? Look in the mirror. Wouldn’t that be all those people who put petroleum products in their autos and in their furnaces? For the years cited in the new regulation, 2000 to 2018, didn’t we all know that burning fossil fuels is responsible for climate change?
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u/Tricky_Lab_5170 7h ago
To be fair there weren’t a lot of available alternatives and we were kneecapped by our country’s infrastructure. The bottom line here is towns can no longer afford to front costs for climate disaster repair and FEMA only goes so far.
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u/Serious_Butterfly714 1d ago
All oil and gas companies should just stop doing business in NY. No deliveries, no fuel.
See how long the state lasts.
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u/ConstantCar7290 19h ago
I want to buy a gas station just on the outside of the state line.
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u/Tricky_Lab_5170 7h ago
There’s protections baked in that the cost can’t be passed off to the consumer.
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u/PC_AddictTX 1d ago
How much does anyone want to bet this will get a lawsuit in federal court? The federal government or the Supreme Court will end up striking this down.