Less than one half of one percent. 

New York State is about to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by less than half of one percent. 

The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA)—the blueprint for spending all of this money—will impact every New Yorker. Among its many ambitious goals, the CLCPA would require: seventy percent of all energy be “renewable” by 2030, an increase of 169 percent in just seven years; and a statewide net-zero emissions standard by 2050. 

While these goals are laudable, the timelines are simply not plausible and the cost is outrageous. Worse, it threatens to leave New Yorkers without power. The state’s plan includes a ten percent gap in energy production—the equivalent of the entire state being without power for 2.5 hours every day of the year. 

Without question, the CLCPA will make it harder and more expensive to heat homes, power cars and run businesses. New Yorkers don’t need life to be harder or more expensive. 

Use this tool to tell your lawmakers and the governor that the CLCPA’s arbitrary timelines for implementing laudable energy goals is too costly and too dangerous; that you support a different path to clean energy—one that won’t cost New Yorkers money, jobs or lives.