New York Greens Recalculate After Hochul’s Climate Policy Turn

Governor Hochul rewrote New York’s landmark climate law to ease costs, delaying key emissions targets and other provisions, which has fractured the environmental movement between those who want to press further and those willing to work with the governor on near‑term affordability and clean‑energy implementation; as the movement recalibrates, allies seek to rebuild political power and shape the state’s energy trajectory amid affordability concerns and data-center growth.