As Glenn Reynolds often writes: I’ll take climate-change claims seriously when its policy activists start living by their own rules.
New York has an abundance of airports, connecting flights, and all sorts of commercial transportation options for the climate-wise traveler. How does Governor Kathy Hochul choose to fly while promoting her climate-change regulatory agenda? New York Post reporter Jon Levine uncovered over $400,000 in private-jet flights chartered by Hochul over the last four years, at least half of which came in her 2022 election campaign while specifically flogging policies targeting fossil fuels (via Twitchy):
Gov. Hochul — who recently approved a controversial law that will force oil, natural-gas and coal companies to pony up $75 billion for carbon emissions allegedly contributing to global warming — has taken at least 30 flights aboard…
