By adopting key components of the NY HEAT Act, especially eliminating subsidies for new gas hook-ups that will save existing customers over $200 million each year, Gov. Hochul has kept her promise to help keep New Yorkers’ hard-earned dollars in their pockets.
Read MoreGov. Kathy Hochul is including funding for flood control projects in her executive budget but wants to reduce the annual amount for water infrastructure projects.
Read MoreIt was heartening to hear Gov. Kathy Hochul include parts of the NY HEAT Act in her State of the State address last week. More action is needed to ramp up the scope of our investments to match the scale of the climate crisis.
Read MoreNY Renews and state lawmakers share that much more is needed so New York can reach its climate goals.
Read MoreThe Renewable Heat Now campaign and our allies across New York celebrate Governor Kathy Hochul’s inclusion of major pillars of the NY HEAT Act.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday announced a plan to put an economy-wide price on carbon, which, if adopted, could mark one of the most sweeping plans in the country to ditch fossil fuels. New York Focus spoke to NY Renews about the importance of Hochul’s inclusion of the cap-and-invest program.
Read MoreIn part two of our coverage, we hear from two youth climate activists from We Stay/Nos Quedamos from the South Bronx, Melanie Giller and John Sanchez, followed by some questions and answers with Senator Krueger and Assemblymember Fahy.
Read MoreAfter a series of extreme weather events across New York in 2023, advocates are calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul to include the Climate, Jobs and Justice package in her executive budget. Katherine Nadeau speaks to WSHU about the package of bills being pushed this session.
Read MoreGov. Hochul didn’t mention her environmental priorities very much in her State of the State speech yesterday. She did highlight New York’s climate goals. NCPR speaks to Katherine Nadeau about the package of bills that NY Renews and other environmental advocates are pushing to be included in this legislative session.
Read MoreNew York’s governor is proposing to streamline the transmission permitting process, which she calls a chokepoint that is slowing progress of the state’s clean energy transition.
Read MoreNY Renews held a virtual ‘Climate State of the State’ press conference on Monday, January 8 to discuss their climate justice priorities for 2024: the People’s Climate Justice Budget and Climate Jobs and Justice Package.
Read MoreNew York lawmakers this session will have to balance pressure to take action on climate policy with concerns about consumer cost in a critical election year.
Read MoreClimate and environmental advocates in New York City and Albany rallied in favor of the New York Home Energy Affordable Transition – or HEAT – Act. They’re calling on the governor to include the legislation that would remove a subsidy for new gas and oil hookups in her executive budget proposal.
Read MoreHost Daren Jaime sits down with the Community Organizer at The Point CDC, Victor Davila, and the Co-director of the Jewish Climate Action Network NYC, Wendy Seligson to talk about NY Renews organizing to launch the Climate, Jobs, and Justice Package campaign that includes the $1 billion budget ask.
Read MoreUnder the leadership of Chair Assembly member Michaelle Solages (D-Nassau County), the members of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and Asian Legislative Caucus released the” 2024 People’s Budget”
Read MoreNew Yorkers have increasingly felt the effects of a changing climate over the last two years, and the effects are pushing environmental advocates to demand more ambitious legislation from lawmakers.
Read MoreWe’re in the midst of a global climate crisis — that is no secret. But for residents of Uniondale, who find themselves at the intersection of both an economic and climate crisis, it's more than just a harsh reality hitting home.
Read MoreNational Fuel is proposing a rate hike to customer bills to pay for antiquated and unreliable energy systems. Gov. Hochul can pass the NY Heat Act in her 2024 budget to ensure this doesn’t happen.
Read MoreNorth Bellport and more than 1,700 other neighborhoods in the rest of New York were identified earlier this year as disadvantaged communities earmarked for billions of dollars in climate funding, according to a state working group. Now, several Long Island coalitions and organizations are calling for that money to be rolled out. They gathered on Wednesday, Nov. 15 in Hempstead — another disadvantaged community — to launch their campaign for the Climate, Jobs & Justice Package.
Read MoreNY Renews Executive Director Stephan Edel discusses some of his coalition priorities for the 2024 state budget process with the Capitol Pressroom.
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