Governor Hochul’s New York state executive budget — to be approved by April — includes a cap and invest strategy, which would make heavy polluters buy allowances for carbon emissions so that proceeds would go towards a clean energy transition.

NYLPI’s Director of Environmental Justice Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright responded to this strategy in New York Focus, noting that the executive budget doesn’t go far enough to address critical climate change policy:

“We don’t want to create a stock exchange for pollution. That’s just antithetical, I think, to the intents of the climate law.”

Learn more from Anthony and other advocates from NY Renews at New York Focus.