The NY HEAT Act (A4592) would lower utility bills for many of us, and it would help shift to cleaner heating. NY Assembly must pass this bill before June 7!
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If New York follows California’s lead on the Clean Fuel Standard, we risk running into one of the biggest concerns arising from the program—an oversupply of credits from renewable diesel and dairy biogas that negatively disrupts fuel prices and floods methane emissions into the atmosphere.
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Despite broad support for the NY HEAT Act, which would reform utility law to accelerate electrification, the fate of the bill in the New York Assembly remains unclear, with just a few days left in the legislative session.
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In the Capital District region, more than one in five residents are energy burdened. And in the Bronx, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s home turf, families are dealing with the twin burdens of high energy costs and skyrocketing asthma rates. Speaker Heastie has an opportunity this session to address both burdens at once. The NY HEAT Act, which would cap the cost of monthly energy bills at 6% of a household’s income and help increase the adoption of highly efficient heat pumps, is essential to keeping energy bills low and helping residents breathe cleaner air.
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Weekly Monday 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.
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Many green groups are planning to keep the pressure on Assembly Democrats to pass a gas transition bill.
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Our Executive Director, Stephan Edel, was featured by Politics NY as one of 2024’s power players in climate, energy and sustainability.
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The budget included no significant measures to address planet-warming emissions from buildings or transportation, the biggest sources of pollution in New York. Instead, there was a sales tax exemption for residential energy storage systems, a few million dollars to plant trees and marginal changes to speed up construction of transmission lines.
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Nearly three weeks late on April 20, Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Legislature passed a budget that has drawn criticism from organizations specializing in housing issues and immigration, with some saying the budget falls short of what is needed to serve their communities.
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For the third consecutive year, NYS Senator James Sanders Jr. and others stood in the Atlantic Ocean as a part of the “Tuvalu Challenge” on Saturday, April 20, to celebrate Earth Day and raise awareness about the effects of climate change on coastal communities like Rockaway.
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A few days prior, negotiations on the final New York state budget wrapped without the inclusion of big ticket climate bills that sought, on several fronts, to accelerate the state’s transition to a zero emissions economy.
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As Earth Day came and went this week, some residents — and their representatives — expressed disappointment in what they see as the state’s failure to follow through on its pledge to limit the impacts of climate change.
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On Wednesday, April 17, Hofstra geared up for Earth Day by hosting a panel about the portrayal of violent and non-violent climate activism in the media.
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The Assembly rejected legislation that would have sped up New York’s transition away from gas.
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With utility rates rising and the summer heat just around the corner, far too many Staten Islanders are struggling to pay sky-high and increasing monthly energy bills.
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As our planet hurtles toward climate tipping points, beyond which climate chaos is irreversible, every dollar we spend on fossil fuels today takes us backwards.
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A bill that would extend New York state’s ban on natural gas fracking is heading to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk after the State Legislature acted recently to prohibit using liquid carbon dioxide to extract the gas from shale rock.
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Our religions tell us a better world is possible, right here on Earth. A better world in which we all have access to clean air and water and people live equitably and peacefully with each other. We call on our fellow New Yorkers of faith to urge your state legislators, including Governor Hochul, to fund the People’s Climate Justice Budget and the Climate, Jobs, and Justice Package in this year’s New York State Budget. We have no more time to waste.
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We must act now to break the patterns of decisions and investments that poison communities of color as the State figures out how to implement the Climate Act and meet its emissions and disadvantaged community mandates. However, the proposed “Clean” Fuel Standard (CFS) is a false solution to our fight for clean air.
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On Wednesday March 20, more than 500 climate activists rallied in Albany in support for NY Renews Climate, Jobs & Justice Package that they want included in New York State's 2024 budget, which is due by April 1.
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