Tell NY’s Energy Authority: We Demand a Clean, Just, and Affordable Energy Future
Via NY Renews
The recently released New York State Energy Plan shows NY missing key climate law mandates, and includes false energy solutions like nuclear and the repowering of toxic, aging gas power plants.
New Yorkers deserve a reliable, clean, and affordable energy system that reduces our reliance on fossil fuels and leads to a healthier environment for everyone—especially NY’s frontline communities, families, and workers disproportionately impacted by pollution.
All of this is within reach. We’re calling on Governor Hochul’s Energy Research and Development Authority to launch NY’s program to make polluters pay for their emissions and invest in making New York a place where everyone can breathe, survive, and thrive.
We cannot allow Hochul to use the updated State Energy Plan to erase the 2022 CLCPA Scoping Plan, and we can’t allow New York to move forward with dangerous, costly, and speculative energy schemes instead of the simple solutions we know work: building out wind and solar energy, making corporate polluters pay, and investing in community-level climate resilience and adaptation measures like improved public transportation infrastructure and weatherproofed, climate-ready homes and apartment buildings.
Submit a letter to NYSERDA today and tell Governor Hochul’s state agency that we demand an energy plan for people and planet—not corporate polluters.