"What appears to be a dorky accounting change is in fact a severe weakening of the climate law," said one campaigner. As The Leverreported Hochul received nearly half a million dollars in donations from energy companies pushing for the 100-year metric. Those companies would benefit from the provision, which would allow them to "include more natural gas in their energy mix while still complying with the state's climate law," Groups including Earthjustice and Food & Water Watch joined climate advocate sto denounce the two bills!. Hochul said in recent days that it supports a metric that would account for emissions over a 100-year period instead—an accounting methodology used by most other states and countries but one that makes "methane emissions appear much less damaging than they actually are," Shiv Soin, co-executive director of climate action group TREEage,
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