After landing an environment deal with china. Wide ranging deal that china has ever agreed to cut Greenhouse Gases and transition to nonfossil fuels, result of secret negotiations that have been under way for nine months. Anne thompson joins me now from new york. I know this is going to take place over a long time. There are a lot of obstacles ahead but this still marks a very big change from the stalemate between the u. S. And china when the president first went to copenhagen when he first took office blocking any huge transition into the low carbon economy, andrea. You consider that the u. S. And china are responsible for onethird of all the Carbon Emissions in the world, the fact that you have the two largest economies and the two largest emiters saying were going to do something about this sends a powerful signal to the Business World and the rest of the world. First of all, the United States would reduce its Carbon Emissions from 2025 from anywhere to 26 to 28 . China, on the othe
Lawmakers and Gov. Josh Green had similar priorities this session, but to balance the next biennium’s budget, Green made 22 reductions in funding or vetoes. What’s left is $ 20.6 billion across fiscal years 2024 and 2025. HPR's Sabrina Bodon has more.
The governor plans to veto a proposal for a controversial first responder campus project. It's part of a list of items that were struck down from the state budget.
The change in the Council on Revenues general fund projections for Fiscal Year 2022-2023 went from +2% in March to –1% in May, which Gov. Green said, prompted the need to rebalance the state’s financial plan through line-item reductions to the budget.