Time is of the essence for environmental activists, legislators and union leaders who are advocating for New York State Governor Kathy Hochul to include in the state budget a bill requiring public transportation systems to transition to zero-emission buses and generate green jobs.
The deadline to include the project Green Transit Law, Green Jobs in the final budget of 2025 ends in April of this year, hence the call to Hochul by the sectors interested in promoting a better environment in the so-called “Empire State”.
Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, who introduced the project known as A6414, explained that it will help achieve climate goals “by safely moving us away from traditional buses, which emit carbon dioxide (CO2) and other harmful pollutants, while contributing to the effect greenhouse and global warming, to more energy-efficient zero-emission buses.”
New York enacted in 2019 the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act which leads to having 100% zero-emission electricity by 2040 and a reduction of at least 85% below the 1990 Greenhouse Gas emissions level by 2050, according to the Climate and Environmental Justice office of the mayor’s office. New York City.
The organization EarthJustice has highlighted that it would maximize the benefits of government spending by ensuring that the purchase of zero-emission buses not only helps reduce carbon emissions in New York State, but also contributes to the creation of good green jobs.
A 2021 New York State Just Transition Working Group (JTWG) study projects that New York City will have about 45,000 green jobs by 2030.
Of these total jobs, nearly 30,000 jobs will be in the buildings subsector and more than 13,000 in the electricity sector. In both sectors, the majority of these job positions will have a median wage of between $28 and $37 per hour or a high wage of more than $37 per hour.
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Christian González of IUE-CWA, said at a recent event discussing the importance of including Bill A6414 in the state budget, that the state can ensure that government spending contributes to a “just transition to a green economy.” .
“We encourage the passage of Green Transit, Green Jobs in the budget to support the State’s commitment to addressing climate change and fostering the growth of good jobs and further demonstrate New York’s leadership,” he said.
Governor Hochul’s climate agenda establishes an orderly transition that creates jobs, continues to promote a green economy in all sectors, and ensures that at least 35% (with a goal of 40%) of the benefits of energy investments clean will go to disadvantaged communities, according to the official’s office.
“Guided by some of the nation’s most aggressive climate and clean energy initiatives, New York is on track to achieve a zero-emissions power sector by 2040, including 70% renewable energy generation by 2030, and achieve carbon neutrality throughout the economy by mid-century,” he predicted.
The investments are key to those goals and include more than $46 billion in 65 large-scale renewable and transmission projects across the state, $6.8 billion to reduce emissions, $3.3 billion to expand the reach of solar energy, nearly $3 billion to ecological transportation initiatives, according to government figures.
These and other investments generated more than 170,000 jobs in New York’s clean energy sector in 2022 and 3,000% growth in the distributed solar energy sector since 2011, the government stated.
To reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality, New York also adopted zero-emission vehicle regulations, including requiring all new passenger vehicles and light trucks sold in the state to be zero emissions by 2035.
2024-02-15 04:28:00
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