Albany, NY More than 80 New York advocacy and grassroots groups joined more than 500 national organizations in releasing a letter to Congress yesterday calling for a truly clean, renewable energy standard as part of the evolving infrastructure package.
To meet its new climate goals, the Biden administration is expected to back a national Clean Energy Standard (CES), which some advocates argue can pass under existing budget reconciliation rules.
But the groups releasing the letter including Food & Water Watch, New York Communities for Change, Riverkeeper, the Long Island Progressive Coalition, New York Youth Climate Leaders, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and 350Brooklyn are critical of current CES plans that qualify fracked gas, carbon capture and storage, factory farm biogas and offsets schemes as forms of clean energy. They point out that these technologies either do not effectively reduce emissions, or create pollution burdens in environmental justice communities
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Photo by: Long Island Progressive Coalition Recently, dozens of activists and community leaders rallied at legislative offices across Long Island to call for the passage of the recently introduced New York Climate and Community Investment Act (CCIA, S4264A) at the state level, and to urge members of Congress to sign on to the THRIVE Agenda. Both legislative packages would help revive our economy while addressing the interlocking crises of climate change, racial injustice, public health and economic inequity. U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove), who supports the THRIVE Agenda, met with those who attended the rally at his office in Huntington and thanked them for their continued advocacy.
J.D. Allen, WSHU Public Radio
Climate activists in New York rallied outside of local state and federal lawmakers offices on Wednesday to urge the approval of a multi-billion dollar investment in clean energy jobs in the state and across the U.S.
The rallies are in support of the New York Climate and Community Investment Act. The measure would raise over $10 billion a year over the next decade to invest in large-scale clean energy projects, like offshore wind. The bill would also fund energy rebates, community projects like tenant-owned solar and an overhaul of public transit, housing and schools to rely on clean energies. It would be paid for with pollution penalties on corporations.
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