New Yorkers already pay some of the highest energy costs in the nation to heat their homes and fill up their gas tanks.

And, unless state law is changed, it’s about to get even higher!

This winter, we’ve all been startled to see our electric bills double and even triple.

New Yorkers pay the 8th highest electricity bills in the nation, and according to the Empire Center, residential electric rates are 50 percent higher than the national average and nearly 8 percent higher than a year ago.

These surging energy bills are due in large part to a myriad of what I’ve railed and voted against — onerous and misguided state taxes, fees and new mandates from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that have been passed down to consumers.

In 2019, then Governor Andrew Cuomo and then Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul with their Majorities, passed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). The CLCPA included several energy mandates on consumers that were pointed out at the time by myself and........

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