It's the Brian Laird show on WNYc, good

again.

It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC.

Good morning again everyone.

Now our climate story of the week,

which we do every Tuesday on the show.

Last week, we talked about America's first large scale

offshore wind energy project now operating off the coast of

Long Island, about 30 miles out from Montauk on the east end.

Today we look at an effort by New York lawmakers to address what you might call the other side of building a renewable energy future at the state government policy level.

As things like wind projects get investments to go up, a bill in the legislature right now would

take New York's taxpayer subsidies of fossil fuels down.

What? New York taxpayers subsidize fossil fuels. Aren't they profitable enough

on their own? Never mind the climate impacts that they don't need any public funding?

Let's find out. With us now, New York State Assembly member Joanne Simon from

Brooklyn, she introduced the Stop Climate Polluters Handout Act and was also

a sponsor of a bill to close a loophole in the state's fracking ban which will also touch on.

Assembly Woman Simon's District includes Dumbo, Carroll Gardens, downtown Brooklyn,

down to Prospect Park go across the

Brooklyn Bridge and your inner district. Assembly member Simon, thanks for coming on

welcome back to WNYC. Well, thank you Brian. It's a pleasure to be with you this morning.

What's in the stop climate polluters handout bill? Well you know I think you asked

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