ALBANY, New York — State climate policies are reeling from a double blow.
Even before President Donald Trump started dismantling the regulations and incentives that were meant to cut planet-warming pollution, blue states were grappling with their own voters’ concerns over high electricity and gas prices.
Taken together, the dynamics threaten the success of Democratic officials to aggressively fight Trump’s agenda and save their own climate goals.
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“The public is exhausted,” said New York Assemblymember John McDonald, a Democrat from the Albany area. “At the end of the day, they don’t want to see their bills go up. We have to be sensitive to that.”
