August 10, 2026 – Gov. Kathy Hochul weakened the strongest climate law in the country this year, bulldozing an environmental movement that spent years pushing for its passage.
“The work of the environmental movement is to build more political power that can contend with money that goes into misleading narratives that pit climate action and environmental protections against affordability or feasibility. It has to be about people, households, jobs and understandably affordability in the near, medium and long term.”
-EANY’s executive director Vanessa Fajans-Turner
