This week, 19 New York State Assembly Democrats urged Governor Kathy Hochul to delay an aggressive building electrification mandate, citing worries about affordability and energy reliability. The all-electric building mandate— if it remains in place— will ban gas use for most new structures starting Dec....
Experts have cautioned states for years that climate mandates cannot happen in a bubble that ignores grid reliability and costs for consumers. As former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Neil Chatterjee warned in 2021: “It’s crucial that we don’t put ourselves in a position where...
Utility companies are sounding the alarm in the Northeast, as a history of state energy policies have over-prioritized sustainability and ignored economic impact. Consolidated Edison Inc’s (ConEd) new plan for the New York City area to raise electricity costs by more than eleven percent next...
Joined by more than twenty state attorneys general and several trade associations, West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey last week announced a lawsuit against New York over the state’s newly enacted climate superfund bill, which seeks to arbitrarily fine energy producers for their contributions to...
Frank Sinatra says if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. So what does it mean when it’s repeatedly made clear that you just can’t make it in New York? That question is one the climate litigation campaign is grappling...
New Yorkers may be in for a new energy tax if Governor Kathy Hochul enacts climate Superfund legislation that attempts to stick energy companies with billions in new fees for alleged climate adaptation costs. The Superfund bill in New York comes as Vermont recently enacted...
The Shale Revolution improved upon technologies the oil and natural gas industry had been using for decades and enabled a transition from energy scarcity to energy security, reduced emissions, lowered prices and helped entice manufacturing and other investments across the country. Despite this and more...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s recently announced budget deal includes the first statewide ban on natural gas appliances, blatantly disregarding the legislature’s previous rule to keep policy out of budget and removing residents’ say in the debate through the legislative process. In fact, the bill...
Amid the ongoing backlash to the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC) interview foreshadowing a gas stove ban earlier this week, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced her plan to electrify buildings across the Empire State, preventing residents from having any gas appliances. The CPSC...
At a campaign event in New York on Sunday, President Joe Biden bragged about stopping oil and natural gas drilling during his time in the White House and vowed to block future production. Biden made the remarks in an apparent back-and-forth with a member of...
There is a host of legislation being teased and introduced in Congress that could have major impacts on the U.S. oil and natural gas industry, particularly in the Northeast, and for consumers as well. But regardless of what transpires with these bills, they raise valid...
The House Energy & Commerce Committee recently held a hearing with major energy companies to push the debunked idea that oil companies are engaging in price gouging schemes amid record high gasoline prices. But it’s a widely accepted economic principle that the price of gasoline...