New York Pushes forward on Climate Goals, but May Fall Short

Monique Fitzgerald, a climate justice organizer at the Long Island Progressive Coalition, spoke at the most recent panel on Sept. 19. Fitzgerald stressed the importance of investing in disadvantaged communities and discussed the environmental pollution in her own North Bellport neighborhood. 

“[I’m] living next to a 50-year-old, 270-foot landfill in Brookhaven,” Fitzgerald said during the panel. 

The Brookhaven landfill “has been a monument of environmental racism on Long Island,” said Ryan Madden, climate and energy campaigns director at the Long Island Progressive Coalition.

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