
NY is debating natural gas pipelines and energy transmission line projects. There should be no debate.
September 4, 2025
New York has some big energy needs in the years to come, between meeting clean electricity goals in the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, attempting to replace dirty power sources like gas and oil, new technologies like AI demanding additional energy and strains that come from increasingly common extreme weather. In addition to increasing the supply, the state’s power grid needs updates and improvements to be able to handle all the demand and adequately distribute that energy to the places that need it. 