Hochul deluged by letters backing climate superfund | Columbia County | hudsonvalley360.com - Hudson Valley 360
Hochul deluged by letters backing climate superfund | Columbia County | hudsonvalley360.com
ALBANY — More than 100 local elected officials and nearly 200 youth organizations descended on the state Capitol on Wednesday to urge Gov. Kathy Hochul to include the Climate Change Superfund Act in her 2024 Executive Budget.
In all, the governor’s office was deluged by nearly 1,000 letters, some co-signed by several elected officials, stating, “Our communities are on the front lines of the climate crisis, bearing the full weight of its impacts,” according to the letter from Elected Officials to Protect America. “We need the state to act now to hold the biggest polluters accountable.”
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