Albany, NY — Today, legislators, including Assemblymembers Anna Kelles, Al Stirpe, and Claire Valdez; advocates; and community members gathered at Albany, New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation to testify and urge Governor Hochul to release the regulations for the state’s cap-and-invest program. This is the second of three in-person hearings throughout the state this month, giving New Yorkers the chance to advocate for a program that would make polluters pay for their toxic and climate-warming emissions while raising between 6 and 12 billion dollars every year to help lower energy bills, upgrade homes and small businesses to clean energy with modern heating and cooling technologies, and create tens of thousands of good-paying jobs.
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