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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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New York climate law

MANHATTAN — The New York high court reversed an appellate ruling that declared a 2019 New York City ordinance was not preempted by related climate-change law passed by the state that same year. The owners of residential buildings affected by the ordinance argued that the state took the lead in regulating greenhouse gas emissions, but “the legislature has neither expressed nor implied any intent to preempt the field of regulating greenhouse gas emissions.”

Read the ruling here.

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