For years, Power The Future has warned that aggressive green energy mandates would come with a heavy price tag for working families. Higher utility bills. Fewer jobs. Weaker reliability. Those warnings were routinely dismissed by politicians, environmental activists, and much of the media as alarmist or partisan.
This week, that narrative quietly collapsed.
In a striking editorial, The Washington Post acknowledged what Power The Future has been saying all along: ideology-driven climate policies are unaffordable. The paper examined New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s recent retreat from several cornerstone green mandates—including delaying a natural gas ban, approving new pipeline infrastructure, and pivoting toward energy affordability—and acknowledged that the state’s climate agenda was colliding with economic reality.
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