Gov. Kathy Hochul has until the end of the year to decide whether to sign a repeal of the “100-foot rule,” excised from a broader bill which what was up until this spring the NY HEAT Act.

The state Senate in June passed an altered version of NY HEAT, the Customer Savings and Reliability Act, as well as a straight repeal of the “100-foot rule,” which forces companies to offer free natural gas hookups to anyone who wants one within 100 feet of an existing line, leaving the Assembly to choose which to act on. They chose the straight repeal.

A report last week in Newsweek that Hochul was considering a conditional approval the bill with a one year delay has advocates like Liz Moran, New York policy advocate for Earthjustice, hopeful that some progress can be made on New York’s climate goa

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