New York’s budget includes $1 billion for climate action — a record amount, but less than the state was supposed to raise by charging polluters.

A national trade group has nearly doubled its spending in Albany since the packaging reduction bill was introduced and taken out attack ads on Democrats in swing districts.

The country’s biggest public housing authority is counting on a Chinese company to supply thousands of new energy-saving window heat pumps.

“There’s no legal basis for what they’re trying to do,” said one legal expert.

Environmentalists have long charged that New York is falling short of its climate mandates. Now, they’re taking the state to court.

In rural New York, even some Republicans are frustrated as the administration halts $186 million in conservation payments to farmers.

A 2023 law is transforming the state power authority into one of New York’s biggest renewable developers. Some still want it to go further.

Here’s where the Senate, Assembly, and governor stand on funding New York’s green transition.

In many cases, electrifying homes is cheaper, according to one new study.

The state is pushing ahead on all-electric buildings, but a draft update to the building code leaves out other key recommendations from the state’s climate plan.

The state has yet to publish a building code update, promised in December, which should include requirements to phase out fossil fuel appliances in new homes.

“I really felt like the carpet was ripped out from underneath us,” said one county official. The state still hasn’t fully explained why it put HEAP on hold so suddenly.

The HEAP program abruptly closed to applications in January, months ahead of schedule. It has since reopened, but key questions remain about why it shut down so suddenly in the first place.

A $1,700 Bills suite tab was paid with campaign funds, bipartisan support for clean water funding, and New York’s top court upheld a man’s conviction despite his negligent lawyer.

Hochul proposes school funding updates and a climate funding alternative. A prominent lobbying firm racks up fines.

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to halt all new approvals for offshore wind, which New York is counting on to meet climate law targets.

The change was among a handful of eleventh-hour tweaks to Hochul’s policy briefing book.

It looked like 2025 could be a tipping point for climate action in New York. Instead, the governor is backtracking on key parts of her agenda.

Our team will be descending upon Albany on Tuesday. Here’s what they’ll be watching.

New York’s plan to put a price on carbon could arrive in 2025. Here’s how it would work.