Environmental groups sue DEC over failure to launch cap-and-invest
New York state’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has failed to issue draft regulations – the blueprint -- for how to enact the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), and now DEC is being sued over that failure.
The agency was supposed to finalize the regulations by Jan. 1, 2024. Instead, the agency announced this past January that the draft would not be released this year.