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Meet The Green Agitators Who Planted Seeds For Brooklyn's Coming Wind Turbine Assembly Hub


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UPROSE Executive Director Elizabeth Yeampierre speaks at a press conference calling for the state to invest $200 million to turn the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal into an offshore wind port and clean energy hub, Oct. 28, 2020. (Claudia Irizarry Aponte/THE CITY)
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A dream long nurtured by grassroots neighborhood activists approached reality last week when Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced an offshore wind turbine assembly hub in Brooklyn part of a promised green energy economy.
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Sunset Park environmental justice advocates had pressed for more than two decades to revive a declining industrial waterfront while sowing the seeds for projects that would serve their largely Latino and immigrant community as well as the environment. ....

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Meet the Green Agitators Who Planted Seeds for Brooklyn Wind Turbine Hub


A dream long nurtured by grassroots neighborhood activists approached reality last week when Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced an offshore wind turbine assembly hub in Brooklyn part of a promised “green energy economy.”
Sunset Park environmental justice advocates had pressed for more than two decades to revive a declining industrial waterfront while sowing the seeds for projects that would serve their largely Latino and immigrant community as well as the environment.
“The possibility of bringing good paying jobs to our community and to also address climate change, for us, that’s everything,” said Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of the local group UPROSE. “That’s what we fight for. We fight for our people, for our ....

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