Senator O'Mara's weekly column 'From the Capitol' -- for the week of June 23, 2025 -- 'The need to rethink NY's energy future remains urgent'

Senator O'Mara

Senator O'Mara offers his weekly perspective on many of the key challenges and issues facing the Legislature.

Until we begin, in earnest, a straightforward reassessment of the realities of the current CLCPA strategy -- including a recognition of the role that we believe nuclear energy, as well as high-efficiency, low-emissions natural gas generation, can and must play in meeting future electricity needs -- these actions will keep arriving with a devastating price tag and consequences for ratepayers and taxpayers, businesses and industries, school districts, farmers, and entire local communities and economies.