It's the Brian Laird show on WNYc.

Good morning everyone.

It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC.

Good morning again everyone.

Now our climate story of the week, which we do every Tuesday on the show

this week, Earth Week.

Let's talk about the New York State Budget

and how it addressed or failed to address climate

change now that the final version of the budget is in.

We did address in this budget period in New York State from the beginning of January until it was passed just the other day some of the particular climate pieces of legislation that were being considered at some of our climate stories of the week on different

Tuesdays now we can assess how it came out so I'm joined by Liz Moran policy

advocate for Earth Justices Northeast office, welcome back to WNYC.

Hey, thanks so much for having me.

And I guess the biggest headline here is what didn't get included in the budget, and that's the New York Heat Act where heat stands

for home energy affordable transition.

It was supposed to help with the transition from fossil fuels to electricity to heat homes, which was

required, is required in the 2019 legislation passed by the state legislature.

So what would the New York Heat Act have accomplished

and was any version of it in the budget?

Yeah, so unfortunately overall this budget really did not reflect the urgency of the climate

crisis and the corresponding energy affordability crisis.

The key policy that was on the table to address that

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