NEW YORK STATE -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo said again on Friday that President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Accord on climate change has "potentially devastating impact" and one that New Yorkers are already seeing.
“People understand that we have extreme weather problems that we never had before, people get it. People see the brown tide, people see seven feet of snow in Buffalo,” said Cuomo, D-New York. “Buffalo gets snow, but they never had seven feet of snow.”
Cuomo made reference to the flooding along the Lake Ontario shore on the heels of a notably rainy spring.
Cuomo, speaking on Long Island, said he plans to have New York adhere to the Paris agreement when it comes to reducing emissions levels, which he said would be part of an “aggressive” push toward renewable energy like wind and solar.
Cuomo also announced a $1.6 billion investment in renewable energy projects, with the goal of creating 40,000 clean energy jobs by 2020. That would stand as the largest clean energy deal by a state in U.S. history.