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Sustainable Long Island  - formerly Sustainable East End - is a monthly series about issues of land use, water and energy resources, transportation and the food industries on Long Island.  

The program is heard on the 3rd Wednesday each month at 6:30am and 8:00PM and past programs are heard on the 2nd Saturday at 9 am on listener powered WPKN 89.5 FM and streaming live on wpkn.org.   

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Earlier programs are archived at http://eastendreport.blogspot.com 

New York's Home Energy Affordable Transition (HEAT) Act

 

The New York Home Energy Affordable Transition or 

NY HEAT Act would lower home energy bills for

 millions of New Yorkers who have natural gas service.

If passed, the the law would direct the state’s Public 

Service Commission to limit the average energy 

burdens of low-to-moderate income households

to 6% of their earnings.

In the recent session of the New York legislature the

 act passed in the Senate but failed in the Assembly.

Legislation to enact the Heat Act will go the State 

legislature again in the upcoming session. 

Advocates are lobbying Governor Hochal to include the

 act in her up-coming budget. 

 

We spoke to Brynn Fuller-Becker of the group 

New Yorkers for clean power

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