Brooklyn, NY -- Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon released the following statement regarding the efforts to rollback the CLCPA:

“Rolling back New York’s signature climate law would move the state in the wrong direction. We should be accelerating investments in affordable energy that creates jobs and builds a healthier future. The CLCPA set ambitious goals prioritizing environmental justice to protect communities that have borne the lion's share of environmental harm, while requiring those goals be achieved in the most cost-effective way. The NYSERDA memo misleads by conflating the CLCPA with cap-and-invest–a program that does not yet exist–and by speculating on the most expensive way to do it. We should be driven by reality and not Big Oil’s talking points.The reality is that utility costs are driven by maintaining costly, old fossil fuel infrastructure, not by the CLCPA," said Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon.