President Donald Trump may have retreated from a full-blown trade war with most of the world, but his fight with China is still raging — and it could stymie New York City’s plans to decarbonize its public housing.

As of Monday afternoon, US tariffs on Chinese imports stood at 145 percent, with China charging 125 percent duties on US goods in response. That could throw a wrench in US climate efforts. China remains by far the world’s largest producer of green technologies and dominates the underlying supply chains. While the United States has already largely shut out some Chinese products, like solar panels, it still imports others, like grid-scale batteries. New York City is counting on one Chinese product in particular to help green its public housing: innovative window heat pump units made by the Guangdong-based company Midea.

A draft bill quietly circulating in the state legislature could significantly weaken oversight of nonpublic schools — including yeshivas — by loosening education standards and delaying enforcement deadlines. Few details about the bill have emerged, including who authored it, and multiple legislators say they haven’t seen the proposal.

New York Focus reached out to 24 members of the Assembly and Senate, including 19 on education committees. None could offer information about the bill’s origin or progress.

Governor Kathy Hochul said last week that she hadn’t seen the proposal and wouldn’t say whether she supported it — though she did back a similar effort last year.

The draft bill’s appearance so late during budget negotiations indicates that its sponsors are likely seeking to have the language inserted directly into a budget bill, as opposed to formally introducing it.

A life-saving but long-stalled program to reimburse kidney donors will start within a few months, state officials said at a meeting on Wednesday. New York is set to be the first state to implement such a program, which the health department estimates could be used by as many as 500 New Yorkers a year.

The program will allow New Yorkers who donate a kidney to fellow New York residents to be reimbursed up to $14,000 for medical expenses, lost wages during recovery, and other costs associated with the procedure, such as travel.

The law was supposed to take effect in mid-2023, but the health department failed to implement it, citing budget constraints and staff shortages.

Following recent reporting from New York Focus on the agency’s continued failure to follow the law, Department of Health Commissioner James McDonald told lawmakers in February that the program would begin operating by the end of 2025 — the first time the department had committed to a timeline.