Earth Equity News

New York Ahead of the Game on Cutting Emissions. By Jon Campbell, Lohud.com, 8/9/2015. "With a head start, a wider scope and its own more-rigorous goals, New York won’t have much extra work to do to meet the president’s mandated cut in carbon emissions from power plants.

The state is on track to meet the mandate — which calls for a 32 percent nationwide cut — more than a decade before the federal Clean Power Plan’s 2030 deadline, boosted in large part by its own, more-aggressive goals laid out in an update to the New York State Energy Plan this year."