This is why the world finds it impossible to reduce fossil energy consumption thus far despite three decades of acknowledgement and world agreements. To do so unilaterally places your country or region at a competitive disadvantage in the free market. So in order to be fair, everyone in the world has to be all in at once according to their abilities.
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NY state has anounced a goal of 100% rebuildable electricity by 2050 and is starting a carbon tax on electric generation to push adoption. And streamlined offshore wind licensing to include 70 GW wind and 20 GW nameplate solar installed in 30 years.
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The worry is that industry will just move over the border to PA which has the cheapest fracked gas in the world.
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