New Yorkers are increasingly suffering from respiratory and cardiovascular illness, cancer, heatstroke and early death due to the rising levels of air pollution, a report found.
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On September 19, 2024, the Bronx Climate and Environmental Justice Network (BCEJN) hosted a Bronx-led Town Hall on climate and environmental justice at Bronx Bethany Church.
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Our latest report was featured in Politico's newsletter.
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New York State is being challenged in the courts and criticized by advocacy groups for failing to live up to its own climate law, raising questions about how the landmark legislation should be applied.
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Almost every state agency violates the clear climate and equity mandates of the law, according to a new report by the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI).
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The state says the Cross Bronx Expressway needs to be repaired. But find out how Gov. Hochul is misusing federal infrastructure money to burden a neighborhood that has been dumped on for decades.
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A recent report reveals that nearly every major New York State agency is ignoring climate mandates, including four of the state’s best-funded departments.
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Advocacy group finds four agencies did not abide by landmark 2019 environmental law.
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Our report on New York State agencies ignoring the Climate Law was covered by Spectrum News 1.
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El Puente’s Daniela Castillo spoke to Radio Kingston about the Climate Superfund Act.
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POLITICO covered our support of Carbon Free New York that pushes for carbon pricing in the electric market.
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The state's progress has been thwarted by faltering offshore wind and major solar projects.
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The state is blowing past key milestones on the way to its big emissions targets.
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Hochul has touted a cap-and-trade program, dubbed “cap and invest,” to limit emissions and achieve the state’s climate goals.
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NY Renews, the Nature Conservancy and the Sierra Club also criticized the governor’s decision.
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The NY HEAT Act (A4592) would lower utility bills for many of us, and it would help shift to cleaner heating. NY Assembly must pass this bill before June 7!
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If New York follows California’s lead on the Clean Fuel Standard, we risk running into one of the biggest concerns arising from the program—an oversupply of credits from renewable diesel and dairy biogas that negatively disrupts fuel prices and floods methane emissions into the atmosphere.
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Despite broad support for the NY HEAT Act, which would reform utility law to accelerate electrification, the fate of the bill in the New York Assembly remains unclear, with just a few days left in the legislative session.
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Frontline climate groups – especially those led by women and people of color – are securing climate policy wins and developing clean energy projects that have the potential to dramatically reduce carbon emissions and benefit millions of people, according to The Solutions Project.
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