Organizations representing hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers demand climate action, not rollbacks
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Enviro Groups Respond to Governor Hochul’s Earth Day Push to Gut the Climate Law
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As the state legislature passes another budget extender, New York legislators and climate and environmental justice advocates gathered at the Capitol in Albany today to remind Governor Hochul and state legislative leadership about the true cost of climate law delays.
At press conferences and rallies on Long Island and in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, NYC, and Albany, New Yorkers called for cleaner air, lower bills, good jobs, and justice for communities at the frontlines of the climate crisis.
New memo from NY Renews shows Governor Hochul’s proposed rollbacks to Climate Law will worsen energy affordability crisis, result in massive economic losses, and lead to negative health impacts
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In response to the news that the Governor is proposing New York delay greenhouse gas emissions regulations to 2030, and extend other climate law requirements, as well as shift the way the state accounts for climate-heating emissions, NY Renews Executive Director Stephan Edel issued the following statement on behalf of the coalition.
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New nuclear reactors are not a climate solution and are a sure path to wasting ratepayer money, driving up our bills, and failing to reduce emissions in the near term.
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In response to the one-house budget proposals released by the New York State Assembly and Senate, NY Renews Executive Director Stephan Edel issued the following statement.
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Nearly 1,000 advocates from the immigration, economic, and climate justice movements unite around a shared demand: Gov. Hochul must defend New York and fund our future
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Governor Hochul is gaslighting the public. She’s equipping her agencies to gut the climate law — backed by bad data that ignores years of the state’s own modeling and research — and echoing the Trump administration’s alarmist rhetoric by saying that rollbacks to the climate law are justified because she “cannot let the state go dark.”
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Governor Hochul’s Executive Budget leaves New Yorkers without bold, ongoing investments in clean air, clean energy, or climate justice. In an era of accelerating climate catastrophe, the Governor’s approach is a markedly unbalanced approach that leaves us with more questions than answers.
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What kind of future will the children of New York face in a state where toxic fossil fuels and costly, dangerous nuclear power produce the bulk of the energy we use, and continue to destroy the livability of our planet?
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After the New York State Supreme Court ruled that Governor Hochul’s administration must issue regulations that comply with the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets by February 2026, NY Renews Executive Director Stephan Edel released the following statement on behalf of the coalition.
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After the New York State Supreme Court ruled that Governor Hochul’s administration must issue regulations that comply with the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets by February 2026, NY Renews Executive Director Stephan Edel released the following statement on behalf of the coalition.
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On Tuesday, September 30, about 80 people — including Haudenosaunee community members and titleholders, climate and environmental justice activists, and social justice advocacy organizations — gathered outside Governor Hochul’s closed-door pro-nuclear summit on unceded Onondaga Nation territory to publicly oppose nuclear energy, naming it as a false solution for the energy and emissions crises we are facing.
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The NY Renews coalition responds to the Sustainable Future Program announcement
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The NY Renews coalition calls on the Public Service Commission to vote no on National Grid’s long-term gas plan and halt this project in its tracks.
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The State Energy Plan continues a dangerous trend of the Governor compromising energy affordability, health, and safety by slowing down the progress on our climate law.
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New Yorkers have made it clear that they want a cleaner, healthier future. This rule is a first step toward identifying polluters spewing greenhouse gases and toxic pollution into our air. Next, we need to hold those polluters accountable for reducing their pollution. Washington is weakening pollution protections and rolling back essential reporting programs, and it’s more critical than ever that states lead the way on policies that will clean our air and make our communities healthier.
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NY Renews, the largest coalition focused on climate justice in New York State and the leading force behind the State’s climate law, opposes the Governor’s directive to the NY Power Authority (NYPA) to take resources from proven renewable energy solutions to expand nuclear energy production.
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