New York's July executive order pauses specified DEC permit applications while the state prepares a generic environmental review. It excludes local-government permits and specified facility uses.
In the historical record
state policy
New York orders a pause on specified data-center permits
Executive Order 62 directs DEC to hold covered discretionary permit applications pending a final environmental review. Applications deemed complete before the order and local-government permits fall outside that hold.
50 MWPower threshold in the order's covered-facility definitionA covered facility can consume at least this amount and meets the order's other characteristics; specified research, education, manufacturing and medical uses are excluded.New York Governor ↗
New Yorkexecutive order issued
Sources and context
The order ties the permit hold to the GEIS report. It establishes a conditional pause; later procedural status was not exhaustively reviewed.
