Gov. Hochul didn’t mention her environmental priorities very much in her State of the State speech yesterday. She did highlight New York’s climate goals. NCPR speaks to Katherine Nadeau about the package of bills that NY Renews and other environmental advocates are pushing to be included in this legislative session.
Read MoreNew York’s governor is proposing to streamline the transmission permitting process, which she calls a chokepoint that is slowing progress of the state’s clean energy transition.
Read MoreNY Renews held a virtual ‘Climate State of the State’ press conference on Monday, January 8 to discuss their climate justice priorities for 2024: the People’s Climate Justice Budget and Climate Jobs and Justice Package.
Read MoreNew York lawmakers this session will have to balance pressure to take action on climate policy with concerns about consumer cost in a critical election year.
Read MoreClimate and environmental advocates in New York City and Albany rallied in favor of the New York Home Energy Affordable Transition – or HEAT – Act. They’re calling on the governor to include the legislation that would remove a subsidy for new gas and oil hookups in her executive budget proposal.
Read MoreHost Daren Jaime sits down with the Community Organizer at The Point CDC, Victor Davila, and the Co-director of the Jewish Climate Action Network NYC, Wendy Seligson to talk about NY Renews organizing to launch the Climate, Jobs, and Justice Package campaign that includes the $1 billion budget ask.
Read MoreUnder the leadership of Chair Assembly member Michaelle Solages (D-Nassau County), the members of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and Asian Legislative Caucus released the” 2024 People’s Budget”
Read MoreNew Yorkers have increasingly felt the effects of a changing climate over the last two years, and the effects are pushing environmental advocates to demand more ambitious legislation from lawmakers.
Read MoreWe’re in the midst of a global climate crisis — that is no secret. But for residents of Uniondale, who find themselves at the intersection of both an economic and climate crisis, it's more than just a harsh reality hitting home.
Read MoreNational Fuel is proposing a rate hike to customer bills to pay for antiquated and unreliable energy systems. Gov. Hochul can pass the NY Heat Act in her 2024 budget to ensure this doesn’t happen.
Read MoreNorth Bellport and more than 1,700 other neighborhoods in the rest of New York were identified earlier this year as disadvantaged communities earmarked for billions of dollars in climate funding, according to a state working group. Now, several Long Island coalitions and organizations are calling for that money to be rolled out. They gathered on Wednesday, Nov. 15 in Hempstead — another disadvantaged community — to launch their campaign for the Climate, Jobs & Justice Package.
Read MoreNY Renews Executive Director Stephan Edel discusses some of his coalition priorities for the 2024 state budget process with the Capitol Pressroom.
Read MoreZero-emission bus manufacturer Nova Bus recently announced the closure of its Plattsburgh facility. As one of the top five major private manufacturing companies in the area, Nova Bus anchors the North country’s manufacturing cluster.
Read MoreVictoria and Molly are here today to talk about a study that the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, where Victoria works—or NYC-EJA, as we'll refer to it—and RFF co-led that involves several academic partners. That study was an analysis of the impact of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act’s implementation on emissions and air quality in New York State's disadvantaged communities. We're going to learn more from Victoria and Molly about this Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, or the CLCPA, as we'll refer to it.
Read MoreThis summer, as heat waves engulf the U.S. and New Yorkers are forced to breathe polluted, smoky air from the devastating wildfires in Canada, New York's state Legislature has finally begun the process of assessing how to fund and implement our state's landmark climate law.
Read MoreFor the first time in several decades, the percentage of Americans concerned about climate change is going down. A majority – 58 percent – still sees climate as a serious threat to our future.
But how can the climate action movement win more hearts and minds? Part of that strategy includes a march on Friday. Our guests discuss what they have planned.
Read MoreThe climate crisis is growing in intensity, threatening our communities, and is affecting the lives of all New Yorkers. Just this summer New Yorkers have been confronted with new, more deadly and debilitating climate emergencies, from the severe flooding in the Hudson Valley to the thick, choking wildfire smoke from Canada causing an increase in respiratory issues and asthma-related ER visits, disproportionately in low-income, predominantly Black and Hispanic communities.
Read MoreThis summer, as heat waves engulf the U.S. and New Yorkers are forced to breathe polluted, smoky air from the devastating wildfires in Canada, New York's state Legislature has finally begun the process of assessing how to fund and implement our state's landmark climate law.
Read MoreAt long last, the State has a feasible plan to reduce climate-warming emissions, make large companies pay for their emissions, and then use those funds to drive the economy-wide transition to renewable energy - all while averting shifting the cost of doing so onto consumers. That is, if the system is well designed.
Read MoreAfter bouts of smothering smoke from Canadian wildfires fueled by heat and drought, the climate crisis came knocking at New York’s door again last month in the form of a stunning once-in-a-thousand-year deluge in the Hudson Valley. Our legislators appeared shocked and blindsided; many took to social media to commiserate. Gov. Kathy Hochul urged New Yorkers to use every bit of our power to fight the ravages of climate change.
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