![]() Kathy Hochul, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and environmental groups. “Astoria NRG failed to demonstrate the need or justification for the proposed project notwithstanding this inconsistency.” “The proposed project would be inconsistent with or would interfere with the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limits established in the Climate Act,” said the DEC in a statement Wednesday. Approximately 85 percent of those public comments were in opposition to the proposal, according to the state. In all, DEC said it received more than 6,600 comments about the plan, which inspired multiple protest rallies by environmental groups and community organizers. The agency told City Limits in August that at that time, NRG had not provided sufficient evidence that the project would comply with the CLCPA, but public comment on the proposal was still open for two and half more weeks. The plant would replace a 50-year-old high-polluting “peaker plant” with a more modern fracked gas facility, according to NRG, which also said the company plans to eventually switch the plant to generate renewable energy.īut DEC said that the project was not in line with the state’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, which was signed into law in 2019 and aims to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by 85 percent by 2050. ![]() ![]() In 2020, Astoria Gas Turbine Power, LLC-a subsidiary of the energy company NRG-applied for a Clean Air Act Title V air permit as part of its plans to build a fossil fuel–fired turbine generator in the northwest Queens neighborhood. ![]()
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