Energy policy

New York regulators have developed a draft of the state’s next energy plan and a public hearing process has begun. The Energy Law requires key state agencies to develop a plan to assess the state’s energy needs, energy supplies, climate impacts, and related issues and plan for at least the next decade. Not surprisingly, the draft energy plan is controversial: For example, the plan reflects the Hochul Administration’s embrace of the state’s aging nuclear power plants.

Crude oil railcars have worried Albany residents who live near the tracks.In today’s Congressional Corner, New York representative Paul Tonko tells WAMC’s…

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy is traveling to Washington this week to deliver an address at a conference on energy policy.The two-day workshop…

We love to complain about the lack of a coherent national energy policy. It’s a perennial complaint no matter who is in the White House or which party…