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NY A07755
Bill
Status
5/20/2019
Primary Sponsor
Phillip Steck
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AI Summary
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Establishes a goal for New York State to achieve 100 percent clean renewable energy for electricity by 2030 with zero net greenhouse gas emissions.
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Defines "clean renewable energy" to include solar, wind, geothermal, and tidal sources, explicitly excluding nuclear power, natural gas, biomass, and fossil fuels.
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Requires the State Energy Board to adopt a state energy plan that incorporates this 100 percent clean renewable energy goal by 2030.
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Identifies the transition as necessary to create jobs, promote economic growth, improve public health, protect the environment, and avoid climate catastrophe.
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Takes effect on January 1 following enactment into law.
Legislative Description
Relates to establishing a one hundred percent clean renewable energy system for electricity by two thousand thirty, such energy system shall include solar, wind, geothermal and tidal sources.
Last Action
referred to energy
1/8/2020