From WSJopinion: Heat-wave blackouts in New York are more likely thanks to Andrew Cuomo’s war on fossil fuels
More than 50,000 New Yorkers lost power amid the weekend’s heat wave that strained the city’s power grid, one week after a transformer fire left 75,000 New Yorkers in the dark for five hours. Governor Andrew Cuomo is flogging the city utility Con Edison, but the blackouts portend the future disruption from his anti-carbon policies.
“We’ve been through this situation w ConEd time & again & they should have been better prepared—period,” the Governor tweeted after this weekend’s power outage. Last week he threatened...
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