New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act is a retroactive, economically harmful policy that prioritizes political agendas over logic that benefits foreign actors like China via NGO-driven lobbying.

By Thomas J Shepstone | Energy Security and Freedom Substack

In Brief

JoNova, an Australian analyst renowned for her incisive critiques of energy policy, shone her light on New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act in a recent post. The Act exists as a retroactive levy on energy firms for past emissions, which she highlights as an exemplary example of misguided green initiatives that prioritize political agendas over economic logic. JoNova argues policies like this inflate consumer costs, weaken energy security, and risk handing strategic advantages to foreign actors like China, while enabling NGOs (e.g., the Chinese-American Planning Council) to lobby for regulations that serve special interests under the guise of climate action. Her analysis underscores a global trend for weaponizing environmental policies to consolidate power, distort markets, and mask geopolitical maneuvering, and urges scrutiny of opaque funding mechanisms and the true beneficiaries of “green” legislation.

Author Thomas J Shepstone, a planning and research consultant from Northeast Pennsylvania, expresses frustration over systemic inaction against widespread NGO abuses, and asks why the Internal Revenue Service, lawmakers, and the oil and gas industry aren’t challenging these entities legally despite clear exploitation of regulatory loopholes. Rampant misconduct, he argues, demands aggressive litigation to hold NGOs accountable.

Read this post in full at the author’s Substack here.