Ewire: New York climate bill drops key labor provisions

New York state legislators have approved one of the country’s most sweeping long-term carbon reduction targets, though some progressives are chafing at last-minute changes to the legislation that dropped key labor protections and provisions pushed by environmental justice groups. “That leaves it looking less like the federal Green New Deal, which includes job creation in low-income, climate-vulnerable, and people-of-color communities as one of its main tenets,” says a report in Grist . The article quotes the coalition group New...