Jonathan Lesser: Numbers don’t add up

This commentary is by Jonathan A. Lesser, Ph.D., who is the president of Continental Economics and the author of the new report “New York’s Clean Energy Programs: The High Cost of Symbolic Environmentalism,” published by the Manhattan Institute. In 2003-04, he was the director of planning at the Vermont Department of Public Service.
Vermont, along with 19 other states, has a long-term greenhouse gas reduction mandate. The original mandate, signed into law in 2006, called for a