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  With former Hochul rival Lee Zeldin nominated as next EPA commissioner, commitments to carbon-free electricity and steeply reduced greenhouse gas emissions grow increasingly hazy. This article originally appeared in The City.  By  Samantha Maldonado NEW YORK - With President Donald Trump set to return to the White House, New York is all but on its own to play catch-up with its ambitious, legally mandated climate goals. The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, passed in 2019 during Trump’s first presidential term, requires the state to have zero-emissions electricity by 2040 and slash greenhouse gas emissions 85% by 2050. While the state has made some progress — aided in large part by the Biden administration, whose friendly stance toward climate action gave way to smoother offshore wind permitting and tax incentives for cleaner vehicles — it’s got a long way to go. Even with that wind at its back, however, New York had already fa...

  Many worry about how Trump might reshape federal health policy — and how those changes could curtail local public health initiatives. This story was  originally published  by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at  healthbeat.org/newsletters . By  Eliza Fawcett, Healthbeat Follow @x NEW YORK - The day after Donald Trump secured a second presidential term, New York officials pledged to protect residents’ reproductive rights and  access to health care — and experts braced for a likely assault on local public health systems. “No matter who is president or what party controls Congress, this city will always stand up for the rights of women, our immigrant brothers and sisters, our LGBTQ+ community and millions of others,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said during a press briefing Wednesday at City Hall. On Tuesday night, New Yorkers overwhelmingly passed Proposition 1 , also known as the Equal Rights Ame...

  Two planks of the Republican nominee’s agenda would have devastating consequences on the city’s fortunes, economists and scholars say. By  Greg David Follow @x NEW YORK - Last Sunday’s rally at Madison Square Garden , Donald Trump yet again pledged to “launch the largest deportation program in American history.” According to him, deporting millions of immigrants, including those who are undocumented and those who are here legally, will free up millions of jobs, especially for Black and Hispanic Americans.  The Republican presidential candidate has also contended during the campaign that imposing tariffs on all imports into the United States will be “beautiful,” as the revenue will allow the government to reduce taxes while leading to a boom in domestic manufacturing. But virtually no reputable economist or scholar of immigration believes he is right on either count. A tiny minority of economists say he could be right on tariffs, but the vast majority sa...