Cuomo big-foots in the name of reducing NY's carbon footprint

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Local officials, ecology-minded groups and bird-watchers in western and northern NY have gone to court over the state's new fast-track system that gives a special panel -- the Office of Renewable Energy Siting -- the power to force plants on communities.
55% : Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plans for siting renewable energy facilities, such as solar farms and windmills, are meeting righteous resistance from upstate locals.
42% : The pressure is on his administration to replace the 200 megawatts of clean energy lost when the Indian Point nuclear plant -- which accounted for 30 percent of the state's carbon-free power production -- shut down for good in April 30 after years of harassment by the governor as he pandered to Westchester activists' overwrought fears.

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