New York's Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act

New York State's Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act  
was signed into law in July of 2019
 
The legislation requires New York to reduce economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent by 2030 and no less than 85 percent by 2050 from 1990 levels.

But fossil fuel interest are working to slow down or stop the implementation of the law.

Host Francesca Rheannon talks with Betta Broad of New Yorkers For Clean Power about the gas industry's disinformation campaign against state plans to implement the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. 

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More information:

New Yorkers For Clean Power

New York's Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act

NYSERDA - New York State's Energy Research and Development Agency

Anne Rabe - New York Public Interest Group - New York's Climate Legislation

Anne Rabe - New York Public Interest Group - New York's Climate Legislation

According to the New York Public Interest Research Group - or NYPIRG:

New York's Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law three significant climate bills this month that help place New York in the national forefront on energy efficient standards, expansion of geothermal renewable energy, and a just transition for geothermal and solar union jobs.

The laws are

the Advanced Appliance & Buildings Standards Act,

the Utility Thermal Energy Network & Jobs Act

and a bill that will require prevailing wages for solar panel renewable energy jobs. 

Other legislation supported by NYPIRG but not passed yet include the 

all electric buildings act, it would require that small buildings be all-electric by 2024and also a law to require more electric car charging stations.

Host Francesca Rheannon talked recently about this legislation with Anne Rabe the environmental policy director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

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Change-E-Hampton NY

 A group of East Hampton residents say they are alarmed by global warming and in particular about species collapse. 

They say that our lawn culture is poisoning us and insects in our yards  and killing the planet.

They are calling for habitat restoration and healthy yards, which means

re-imaging our landscape together with our landscapers.

Sustainable Long Island's Francesca Rheannon spoke this week with Gail Pellett of Change-E-Hampton NY, organizer of the group.

 Here is our conversation

Renewable Heat Now Campaign

 

Renewable Heat Now is a campaign organized by several organizations including the Alliance for a Green Economy, New Yorkers for Clean Power, Earthjustice, and the New York Public Interest Research Group.

 The groups have joined together to accelerate the adoption of ground-source (or geothermal) and air-source heat pumps to reduce the amount of fossil fuels used to heat and cool our homes and workplaces in New York state.

Host Francesca Rheannon talked recently with Billi Roberti of Huntington - an activist with the campaign.

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More about the Renewable Heat Now campaign can be found on-line at RenewableHeatNow.org

 

New York State Assembllyman Fred Thiele on climate and environment-related legislation

Host Francesca Rheannon talks with New York Assemblyman Fred Thiele about climate and environment-related legislation before the state legislature in the 2022 session.  

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