Brian Lear on WNYC and now we turn to our climate story of the week which we're doing on

Tuesdays again in 2024. Last week we talked about the state of the state addresses from Governor

Hokklin, New York and Governor Murphy in New Jersey and while both

governors acknowledged that climate was one of the defining issues of our time,

they didn't spend a lot of time elaborating on what they see as solutions.

So we thought we would devote our climate story of the week this week to drilling down a little more and including clips from the speeches on what

Hockel and Murphy did say about climate and how they seem to be setting up climate policy

proposals in 2024. So joining me now to break down all of this

are Marie French and Ry Revard who cover energy and the environment for

Politico in New York and New Jersey respectively.

Marie and Rai, welcome back to WNYC.

Good morning.

Good morning. And to be here.

And Marie, we're going to dive right in with a clip from Governor Hockel.

Since you're on the New York side, here's a clip of the issues that she ticked through during her

state of the state address?

We'll protect the environment by planting 25 million trees, fund resiliency efforts, and

expand solar access, and make sure our state meets our bold

emission targets.

So Marie, can you get a bit more granular out of that list which efforts are most likely to

happen this year or are hulka mike most likely to push during the legislative

session yeah well so it's it really interesting. The governor did not devote really any

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