New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of 2019 (CLCPA) sets out ambitious goals for the state to measure and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has not met all the act’s deadlines to issue implementing regulations. Most recently, on October 24, 2025 a state trial court (the Supreme Court of Albany County) ordered DEC to issue overdue regulations directing emission sources to reduce GHG emissions. The remainder of this note discusses CLCPA and its status.
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In September 2025, California extended and amended authority for its statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) “cap and trade” program through 2045 – and rebranded it as “cap and invest.” The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has administered this program since 2012, as part of broader GHG reduction provisions created by 2006’s Assembly Bill (AB) 32. AB 32 initially committed the state to reduce total GHG emissions back to 1990 levels by 2020 (achieved in 2018); ARB’s latest GHG reduction scoping plan (issued in 2022), seeks to reduce statewide emissions to 85% below 1990 levels by 2045, achieving carbon neutrality. Subsequent legislation extended implementing authority for cap-and-trade and other related programs available to the California Air Resources Board (ARB) and other agencies through 2030. (I wrote about that extension (AB 398) HERE ). The newest legislation (AB 2017 and Senate Bill (SB) 840) continues the state’s GHG reduction efforts by making further changes to ARB’s cap and trade authority. The rest of this note summarizes these changes.
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