{"id":24158,"date":"2016-12-27T09:02:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T14:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24158"},"modified":"2016-12-28T09:04:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T14:04:28","slug":"ny-gov-cuomo-administration-remains-unable-to-defend-energy-boondoggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24158\/ny-gov-cuomo-administration-remains-unable-to-defend-energy-boondoggle\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Gov. Cuomo Administration Remains Unable to Defend Energy Boondoggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/12\/22\/cuomos-energy-boondoggle-triggers-bipartisan-rejection\/\" target=\"_blank\">an op-ed<\/a> published last week\u00a0at <em>The Daily Caller<\/em>, CFIF Sr. Vice President Timothy Lee explains how New York Governor Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s Administration remains unable to defend\u00a0its crony capitalist\u00a0Clean Energy Standard (CES) against burgeoning bipartisan public opposition.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr. Lee:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conspicuously, Cuomo Administration officials remain unable to defend the plan against burgeoning public opposition.\u00a0 In a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twcnews.com\/nys\/capital-region\/capital-tonight-interviews\/2016\/11\/21\/audrey-zibelman-november-21-.html\" target=\"_blank\"> local television appearance<\/a>, Cuomo\u2019s Public Service Commission Chair Audrey Zibelman couldn\u2019t justify the decision to provide billions of dollars in subsidies to upstate plants while simultaneously closing downstate plants, and she stubbornly refused to acknowledge the plan\u2019s high costs.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear power remains a reliable domestic energy source that the United States can cleanly and safely utilize to a far greater extent.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Cuomo\u2019s crony capitalist CES scheme isn\u2019t the way to go about it.\u00a0 The growing bipartisan opposition movement is an encouraging sign, one that should confirm for New Yorkers of all political leanings that the plan should be rejected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the entire op-ed <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/12\/22\/cuomos-energy-boondoggle-triggers-bipartisan-rejection\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed published last week\u00a0at The Daily Caller, CFIF Sr. Vice President Timothy Lee explains how New York Governor Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s Administration remains unable to defend\u00a0its crony capitalist\u00a0Clean Energy Standard (CES) against burgeoning bipartisan public opposition. According to Mr. Lee: Conspicuously, Cuomo Administration officials remain unable to defend the plan against burgeoning public opposition.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4915,4441,560],"class_list":["post-24158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-clean-energy-standard","tag-cuomo","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24161,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24158\/revisions\/24161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}