New York's Clean Energy Standard to be "an exercise in symbolic environmentalism. It will provide almost no measurable benefits, while imposing huge costs, including disproportionate costs on lower-income residents"
New York's Clean Energy Standard: Costly and Ineffective
A recent report evaluated New York State's clean energy programs and found them costing the state's consumers and businesses over $1 trillion with no measurable impact on world climate.1 Thus, the carbon dioxide reductions that would cost the state's residents heavily would have no value. This is nothing new; New York finds numerous ways to tax its people with little benefit to show for it.
