Environmental Advocates of New York says the Cuomo team deserves credit for its aggressive State Energy Plan, but cautions the goals may be just out of reach should the state go the way of re-firing outdated fossil fuel plants and raiding carbon
abatement programs like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Not exact matches
However, it's premature to call the budget a done deal, as there is no revenue bill, and when there is one, it will include all the sticky wicket items —
like education spending, raise the age and the 421 - a tax
abatement program.
Other cities
like Portland, Oregon, Austin, Texas, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C. and more recently San Francisco, California and Denver, Colorado offer grant
programs, tax credits or
abatements or have passed bills to support greening more of their roofs.
They could begin Kyoto already looking
like heroes, despite the fact that the reductions from 1990 - 1997 were almost all due to economic and political happenings unrelated to CO2
abatement programs.
While something
like a Global Apollo
program for clean energy (and for other climate change
abatement strategies too) is almost certainly a good idea, society risks moving too slowly to curtail climate change by focusing primarily on R&D.
In light of all the publicity, I'd
like to see the city's numerous legal aid
programs offer streamlined methods to help self - represented litigants fight these nuisance
abatement evictions.