New York state has become the first in the U.S. to ban natural gas hookups and appliances in new buildings constructed, in a bid to reduce state emissions. The City had already enacted an identical policy in late-2021.
The deal was announced during a fiscal budget deal for 2024 by Governor Kathy Hochul and other state officials.
Katy Zielinski, a spokeswoman for the governor’s office, told the press on Friday that this package will not have any workarounds and must be abided by.
The new law will not have any loopholes that will undermine the intent of this measure. There will not be any option for municipalities to op out.
Zielinski said, according to the New York Times
Everyone knows we’ve seen the effects of climate change — the storms, the hurricanes coming to New York, record snow amounts. We’re seeing the effects every single day. Not just here, but across the nation. Our budget prioritizes nation-leading climate action that meets this moment with ambition and the commitment it demands.
We’re going to be the first state in the nation to advance zero-emission new homes and buildings beginning in 2025 for small buildings, 2028 for large buildings. And we have more to do.
Hochul said, reported by Fox News
The actual ban will not take effect until 2025.
The move is apart of a much broader $250 million Community Decarbonization Fund (CDF), under Hochul’s newly created under the NY Green Bank, a division of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the state’s clean energy and sustainable infrastructure financing entity.
According to a press release from Hochul’s website, the CDF includes:
New York State’s nation-leading climate agenda calls for an orderly and just transition that creates family-sustaining jobs, continues fostering a green economy across all sectors and ensures that at least 35 percent, with a goal of 40 percent, of the benefits of clean energy investments are directed to disadvantaged communities.
Guided by some of the nation’s most aggressive climate and clean energy initiatives, New York is on a path to achieving a zero-emission electricity sector by 2040, including 70 percent renewable energy generation by 2030, and economywide carbon neutrality by mid-century.
A cornerstone of this transition is New York’s unprecedented clean energy investments, including more than $35 billion in 120 large-scale renewable and transmission projects across the state, $6.8 billion to reduce building emissions, $1.8 billion to scale up solar, more than $1 billion for clean transportation initiatives, and over $1.9 billion in NY Green Bank commitments.
These and other investments are supporting more than 165,000 jobs in New York’s clean energy sector in 2021 and a 2,100 percent growth in the distributed solar sector since 2011. To reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality, New York also adopted zero-emission vehicle regulations, including requiring all new passenger cars and trucks sold in the State be zero emission by 2035.
Partnerships are continuing to advance New York’s climate action with nearly 400 registered and 100 certified Climate Smart Communities, nearly 500 Clean Energy Communities, and the State’s largest community air monitoring initiative in 10 disadvantaged communities across the state to help target air pollution interventions and combat climate change.
As we continue to build an equitable, clean energy future for all New Yorkers, NY Green Bank is sending a clear signal that our state is a leader in green infrastructure and economic development.
Increasing the capacity of community-based lenders to support clean energy projects in underserved communities across our state will improve access to renewable energy and healthier, affordable housing while we continue working to ensure a greener New York for all.
Hochul said in a statement
California has also taken steps to phase out gas-powered appliances by 2030 but has not outright banned natural gas hookups in new buildings as of yet.
The White House has also floated out the prospect that they may try to ban gas stoves and other related appliances this year.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Job 10:3
Again, I say it all the time: these green policies have nothing to do with saving the environment and reducing emissions. This is all about control, plain and simple. In order to power all this electricity it must lead back to a centralized hub that burns tons of “dirty energy.”
“Decarbonization” is a buzzword that means something will be minimized or outright removed.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Hey Jacob,
Can you make a report on Carolyn Bryant Donham and/or Charles Stanley dying?
i hope the earthly wealth he sold out to was worth the hell he is in now.
why waste Jacob’s time on nonsense there are important and better topics to talk about.
Matthew 8:22
But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
that man lead so many to hell with him just by teaching on the trinirty and always using a niv.
his son aint no different but rather worse.
I don’t think it’s a waste of time, Magnolia, but that’s just me. That droning over-educated fool who blabbered and droned insipid, thin-skinned, and ultimately false messages, Charles Stanley was an effeminate little girly boy! His face showed that he was effeminate, he never worked a day in his life he never picked up a broom, an axe, a shovel, a spatula, a brush, a squeegee, a rake, a wrench, or any other tool, it’s no wonder Charles Stanley looked like he was always wearing lipstick.
Judge not least ye be judged.
It’s talking about not judging hypocritical judgement it’s not saying don’t judge period. Unrepentant sinners and false christians love to twist that scripture because they wanna sin in peace without conviction.
The dumbing down & borderline illiteracy promoted as ‘superior’….like ‘trans’ this and ‘trans’ that, social justice…has progressed to the point that people can’t write a full sentence, let alone be found able to properly parse & rightly divide the word of God. There’s a remedy for that which is no waste of time, but rather a good redemption of the time allotted. Someone must be able to pass on knowledge & God’s word, true literacy, that the ground & the pillar of the faith continue on to the end. We are to be workmen who shew ourselves teachable & approved by the testimony, not slovenly.
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This is not about caring for the environment. This is about removing affordable heat & shelter, property, from the little people, further demoralizing and herding them more easily into a tighter grid controlling human capital: into the euthanasia corral. Rural New York suffers & has been depressed & gutted, impoverished & drug-riddled due to the policies coming down from Albany & NYC, & sucking them dry, for a long time.
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It’s a lot like rural Illinois, but more advanced. Or like Austin, Texas versus the rest of the state. Southern Ohio & so forth. It doesn’t pay to be apathetic while the Jesuits are busy behind the scenes being ‘all things to all men’ positioning themselves into positions of power & influence, & cloaking themselves in deceptive ‘mental assent’, w/ Mama, are on the march.
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Too bad they’re such hypocrites bringing judgment on themselves & others, these deceiving and being deceived, evil men and seducers waxing worse and worse: Go green: compost a globalist. (Christians who have the means do not presume to make the Lord regather their ashes, but bury their dead anticipating the resurrection & in testimony to the Lord according to the scriptures.)
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They’re also driving people out. So the balkanization and exploitation through crafted & contrived ‘civil war’ can look like a plausible excuse for more kill-off of nonessentials in the idolatrous humanist, Luciferian, survival of the fittest Buddhism/Hinduism/shamanism as the U.S. is either removed or fully transformed & merged to the antichrist unity clearing the way for the fulfillment of scripture, the chasing of the Jews back to the land. The judgment of the world.
Tightening the screws.
I am now starting to make plans to leave New York State. I am currently trying to generate income so I can leave as fast as possible.
Good idea. Be ready to capitalize on coming deals and fire sales when the ponzi economy is finally allowed to crash.