Good morning and welcome to the Tuesday edition of the New York & New Jersey Energy newsletter. We'll take a look at the week ahead and look back on what you may have missed last week.

CONGESTION PRICING IS HARD — POLITICO’s Danielle Muoio Dunn:  Some of the world’s biggest cities keep turning to a simple tool to cut traffic, reduce emissions and raise much-needed revenue: Tolls.

From Stockholm to Singapore, taxing urban drivers is en vogue — and working. Parochial politics have prevented cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles from instituting so-called congestion pricing. Now, those same concerns are vexing its implementation in the core of the nation’s biggest city.

It does not matter that Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul is fully behind the plan, just as her predecessor was. It does not matter that the state no longer has to worry about Donald Trump, whose administration stalled the approval process.

What matters is the bipartisan pushback she’s getting at home and across the Hudson River in New Jersey.

But congestion pricing works, and if New York wants to lead the way on this side of the Atlantic, it will need to deal with the pushback, according to an expert with London’s public transit authority, which implemented a similar program in 2003.

“You weren’t just trying to use the price mechanism. What you’re trying to do was change people’s travel behavior to make them more sustainable,” Christina Calderato, director of transport strategy and policy at Transport for London, said in an interview.

ICYMI — NEW YORK LOOKS FOR WIND PORT WINS — POLITICO’s Marie J. French: New York’s big dreams of building components for the offshore wind supply chain at Albany-area ports are hitting unexpected riptides, even with the promise of lucrative state and federal grants.

The Port of Coeymans — a former brick manufacturer near Albany turned into a maritime hub for construction debris from New York City, sand, gravel and other materials — has pivoted toward an additional role of supporting offshore wind.

But the goals are bigger than just at the Port of Coeymans and include the nearby Port of Albany, and both face an uncertain future amid growing environmental concerns.

Accelerated tree cutting at the Port of Albany, with its own ambitious expansion plans, may have imperiled its federal grant for a new manufacturing plant for offshore wind equipment, and federal agencies are raising concerns that could jeopardize critical approvals for the project.

State officials, including Gov. Kathy Hochul who attended an event earlier this year heralding the Port of Albany project, and offshore wind boosters continue to express confidence that the state will secure significant jobs, investments and a slice of the burgeoning offshore wind supply chain. But all of the uncertainty is raising new questions about whether the dueling port projects will reach the scope sought by developers.

“The investments that I see in our state are durable,” NYSERDA president and CEO Doreen Harris said in an interview with POLITICO. “That is probably the most critical part — that we have enduring investments that will serve not only the achievement of our goal, but the investments that other states are making as well.”

The state continues to invest in the industry: About $300 million is available for ports and other manufacturing hubs as part of a recently announced competition for new wind projects.

ICYMI — YEAR AFTER IDA, FLOOD RULES DOG MURPHY — POLITICO’s Ry Rivard: When intense flooding caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida killed 30 people in New Jersey a year ago, Gov. Phil Murphy vowed to “update our playbook” for extreme weather. But since then, a key part of the state's plan to protect lives and property has stalled.

The administration was already working on a new rule to restrict development in flood prone areas, but the task took on new urgency after the remnants of Ida touched down a year ago today.

Yet the rule, which would have required certain new buildings to be flood-proofed, is now in limbo after the administration seemingly botched its rollout, alarming environmentalists and raising questions about whether the lessons of last year’s tragedy will go unlearned.

During a hearing in August, Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn LaTourette blasted New Jersey developers for being “wrong” or “lying” about the effect the rule would have on the building industry.

A review of events, as well as interviews with close observers of the process, suggest the Murphy administration itself is also at fault and unable to muster a coherent approach to extreme flooding.

The failure contrasts with Gov. Chris Christie, whose administration began updating coastal building standards months after Superstorm Sandy hit the state in 2012. The 10th anniversary of that tragedy will be marked next month.

— In New York, THE CITY reports, New York City Mayor Adams and Gov. Hochul also have little to show.

Here's what we're watching this week: 

WEDNESDAY
— The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities meets at 10 a.m to discuss, among other things, an audit of the affiliated transactions between New Jersey Natural Gas Company and New Jersey Resources Corporation and its affiliates.

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— A fire at Minnewaska State Parkhas been contained after eight days of burning through the forest in Ulster County.

— Jellyfish stingmore than 200 swimmers at Robert Moses and Jones Beach.

— PSEG’s new CEO, Ralph LaRossa, took the helm last week and is beginning to talk about his vision for the company.

— Congressional candidate and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey commissioner Rob Menendez wrote an op-ed that supports a controversial expansion of lanes heading toward the Holland Tunnel but looks for a compromise, such as setting aside the new lanes for buses.