NYC fails climate goals; Hochul impedes future climate resiliency projects
No. 383 | Monday, July 15, 2024
The NYC Thorn is a weekly roundup of local political news compiled by members of NYC-DSA.
Local News
Mayor Eric Adams declined to veto a bill that would enable the City Council to block additional mayor-appointed commissioner positions. To go into effect, the bill must pass muster with the City’s new Charter Revision Commission.
A new state report found that New York is unlikely to source 70 percent of its electricity from renewable energy by 2030, a deadline set in the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.
Intense heat this summer has caused travel delays on New Jersey Transit and Amtrak. Experts say that the agencies need to take a preventative approach in the future.
The Metropolitan Transit Authority said that Governor Kathy Hochul’s decision to cancel congestion pricing could lead to down-the-line delays of climate resiliency projects.
Advocates are pushing for the City Council to pass a bill that would end time limits on stays in homeless shelters.
The New York Court of Appeals ruled against Republican efforts to keep the state Equal Rights Amendment, which would enshrine abortion rights in the New York constitution, off the ballot this November.
The head of the City's early childhood education programs, Kara Ahmed, is leaving her post after a short, controversial tenure.
A new report from the City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection found that delivery app drivers’ average hourly wages have increased $12.37 per hour at the end of 2023 to $19.26 per hour, thanks to a bill setting a new minimum wage going into effect in the interim.
Election News
Top New York democrats are divided over whether President Joe Biden should end his presidential campaign. Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado has called for Biden to drop out, in a split with Governor Kathy Hochul.
The DSA National Political Committee has withdrawn its conditional endorsement of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), although she remains endorsed by NYC-DSA. City and Stateexplains the decision.
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