Thousands of New Yorkers came together for the #Sandy5 march on October 28, 2017; to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy. Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in a wave of blue, participants are demanding powerful climate action from New York’s elected officials. Over 150 local, state and national organizations, with strong representation from neighborhoods impacted by the storm, signed-on to the march. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Thousands of New Yorkers came together for the #Sandy5 march on October 28, 2017; to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy. Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in a wave of blue, participants are demanding powerful climate action from New York’s elected officials. Over 150 local, state and national organizations, with strong representation from neighborhoods impacted by the storm, signed-on to the march. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Thousands of New Yorkers came together for the #Sandy5 march on October 28, 2017; to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy. Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in a wave of blue, participants are demanding powerful climate action from New York’s elected officials. Over 150 local, state and national organizations, with strong representation from neighborhoods impacted by the storm, signed-on to the march. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

On January 16, 2020, the biggest public turnout of New York advocates, businesses, families, farmers, students, health professionals, and more, attended the Public Service Commission’s (PSC) monthly meeting and stood up in outrage as they awarded Consolidated Edison almost a billion dollars per year for their upcoming rate cycle, funded by New York residents, to construct 3 new fracked gas pipelines in Westchester/Bronx, Queens and Manhattan and replace old pipeline with new pipeline. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

XR NYC protesters blocked traffic in midtown Manhattan on October 7, 2019 as Extinction Rebellion activists started a week of action around the world to highlight their environmental campaign with a wide-ranging series of protests demanding new climate policies. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

The XR Red Rebel Brigade held a solemn procession in Battery Park on October 7, 2019 as Extinction Rebellion activists started a week of action around the world to highlight their environmental campaign with a wide-ranging series of protests demanding new climate policies. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Over 100 New Yorkers came together outside Governor Andrew Cuomo’s fundraiser at the Plaza Hotel on June 18, 2018, calling on the New York governor to act on climate and prison injustice under the umbrella of “Cuomo’s Pipelines: Prisons to Poisons Are Bad For New York.” This is the first time these two movements have come together to demand systemic change from the governor. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Local climate activists participated in the global launch of the Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card on March 20, 2019. In New York city, Kim Fraczek, director of Sane Energy Project, hand-delivered the Report Card 2019 at the global headquarters of JP Morgan Chase. On the eve of the report release, Chase Bank branches were illuminated by light projections related to the report finds. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Local climate activists participated in the global launch of the Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card on March 20, 2019. In New York city, Kim Fraczek, director of Sane Energy Project, hand-delivered the Report Card 2019 at the global headquarters of JP Morgan Chase. On the eve of the report release, Chase Bank branches were illuminated by light projections related to the report finds. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

On September 20, 2020 a coalition of climate, Indigenous and racial justice groups gathered at Columbus Circle to kick off Climate Week with the Climate Justice Through Racial Justice march. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Court support for #Albany55 - The 55 people arrested at the Cuomo Walk The Talk Action are facing COURT over 4 days. Please attend this brief morning experience to show your appreciation to those who put their bodies on the line to show Governor Cuomo our movement is ready to escalate to halt fracking infrastructure, move swift and just to 100% renewable energy and make corporate polluters PAY! The Action is not over until the last person is released from jail or court! (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Youth activists from Fridays For Future NYC, along with Peoples Climate Movement NY and many allied climate advocacy groups gathered at City Hall Park on September 24, 2021 for a march to Battery Park. Youth in New York City and across the globe led strikes as part of climate week, demanding urgent action on the climate crisis and calling on us all to #UprootTheSystem which has allowed imperialism, colonialism, racism and other systemic injustices to harm people around the world and dangerously warm the planet. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Over 100 New Yorkers came together outside Governor Andrew Cuomo’s fundraiser at the Plaza Hotel on June 18, 2018, calling on the New York governor to act on climate and prison injustice under the umbrella of “Cuomo’s Pipelines: Prisons to Poisons Are Bad For New York.” This is the first time these two movements have come together to demand systemic change from the governor. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Seniors in New York City and a coalition of environmental groups led by Third Act NYC, along with allies from XRNYC, Stop the Money Pipeline, Greenfaith, 350NYC, Rise And Resist and many other organizations, held rally and march on March 21, 2023 as part of a National Day of Action to pressure the major banks to stop financing the expansion of the fossil fuel industry. The rally featured a climate clock, Climate and anti-consumerism activist and performance artist Rev. Billy Talen and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir and a pair of giant scissors cutting up credit cards. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

XR NYC protesters participated on a "Funeral For Our Future" on October 7, 2019 as Extinction Rebellion activists started a week of action around the world to highlight their environmental campaign with a wide-ranging series of protests demanding new climate policies. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Activists covered the Wall Street Bull in blood and perform a die-in around it in an act of civil disobedience on October 7, 2019, as Extinction Rebellion activists started a week of action around the world to highlight their environmental campaign with a wide-ranging series of protests demanding new climate policies. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

XR NYC protesters participated on a "Funeral For Our Future" on October 7, 2019 as Extinction Rebellion activists started a week of action around the world to highlight their environmental campaign with a wide-ranging series of protests demanding new climate policies. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Over 15 organizations representing thousands of Long Islanders rallied outside Senator and chair of the Senate environment committee Todd Kaminsky office on August 14, 2019 and delivered a strong message calling on the Senator to call on Governor Andrew Cuomo, and the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to deny construction permits for the unwanted and unnecessary Williams NESE fracked gas pipeline. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

A coalition of community and climate groups including Food & Water Watch, New York Renews, Sane Energy Project, NY Communities for Change, JLUSA and HALT Solitary picketed outside a fundraiser hosted by Governor Cuomo at the Harvard Club of NYC, on August 8, 2018, demanding he stop all oil and gas projects, shift to 100 percent renewable energy, and make corporate polluters pay for their damage to our health and safety. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

On January 25, 2022 a coalition of community organizations under the banner Climate Can't Wait 2022 gathered outside Governor Hochul's office in midtown Manhattan to demand that the state legislature and governor prioritize climate justice in the 2022 budget and legislative session. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

On January 25, 2022 a coalition of community organizations under the banner Climate Can't Wait 2022 gathered outside Governor Hochul's office in midtown Manhattan to demand that the state legislature and governor prioritize climate justice in the 2022 budget and legislative session. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

On April 28, 2023 eleven Climate Activists were arrested after storming the barricades and pouring fake oil at BlackRock’s headquarters in Manhattan. Along with 75 other activists with pitchforks, they shut down the HQ entrance to demand that the company - the world’s largest investor in fossil fuels - end new investments in coal, oil and gas, in line with the basic scientific requirements of avoiding global climate catastrophe. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Seniors in New York City and a coalition of environmental groups led by Third Act NYC, along with allies from XRNYC, Stop the Money Pipeline, Greenfaith, 350NYC, Rise And Resist and many other organizations, held rally and march on March 21, 2023 as part of a National Day of Action to pressure the major banks to stop financing the expansion of the fossil fuel industry. The rally featured a climate clock, Climate and anti-consumerism activist and performance artist Rev. Billy Talen and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir and a pair of giant scissors cutting up credit cards. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

New Yorkers held a rally outside the New York Stock Exchange on March 7, 2018; as Exxon CEO Darren Woods speaks at the corporation’s “Global Analyst Meeting” at the New York Stock Exchange. This comes weeks after Exxon released a report claiming climate change will have “little risk” on its core business model of fossil fuel extraction. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Community members from across North Brooklyn rallied at Manhattan Avenue and Moore Street near the construction site of National Grid’s controversial Metropolitan Reliability Infrastructure (MRI) project shutting down construction for the day on February 15, 2020. Community calls for immediate, permanent halt of construction and on Mayor De Blasio, and Governor Cuomo to oppose project. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

7 members of Sunrise NYC were arrested outside of Senator Chuck Schumer’s midtown office building on April 30, 2019 after blocking the entrance doors in an act of civil disobedience, demanding that the Senator join his colleagues and back the Green New Deal. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Members of Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE) held an action outside the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) headquarters in Washington DC on June 25, 2018, as dozens of BXE members and allies rallied around two of their fellow activists who perched on platforms on bamboo "gas drilling rigs"​ and laying an inflatable pipeline on the street blocking the entrance to the driveway to FERC's employee parking lot from 7am to early afternoon, successfully preventing them from accessing the workplace. Activists are demanding a halt to the permitting and building of all new fossil fuel pipelines and other infrastructure. There were no arrests. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

The NY Department of Environmental Conservation held the last public hearing on the Williams NESE Pipeline at the Rockaway Park High School For Environmental Sustainability on March 6, 2019. The Williams NESE pipeline, will carry fracked gas for 23 miles through our thriving and beautiful New York Harbor. Comments will be received by the DEC until March 15. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

The NY Department of Environmental Conservation held the last public hearing on the Williams NESE Pipeline at the Rockaway Park High School For Environmental Sustainability on March 6, 2019. The Williams NESE pipeline, will carry fracked gas for 23 miles through our thriving and beautiful New York Harbor. Comments will be received by the DEC until March 15. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Street closures and traffic congestion in the streets of Bushwick during National Grid's North Brooklyn Pipeline phase 4 construction in Brooklyn. Residents and local elected officials have expressed strong opposition to the pipelines cutting through their neighborhoods carrying highly volatile fracked gas. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Thousands of New Yorkers came together for the #Sandy5 march on October 28, 2017; to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy. Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in a wave of blue, participants are demanding powerful climate action from New York’s elected officials. Over 150 local, state and national organizations, with strong representation from neighborhoods impacted by the storm, signed-on to the march. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Thousands of New Yorkers came together for the #Sandy5 march on October 28, 2017; to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy. Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in a wave of blue, participants are demanding powerful climate action from New York’s elected officials. Over 150 local, state and national organizations, with strong representation from neighborhoods impacted by the storm, signed-on to the march. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Members of Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE) held an action outside the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) headquarters in Washington DC on June 25, 2018, as dozens of BXE members and allies rallied around two of their fellow activists who perched on platforms on bamboo "gas drilling rigs"​ and laying an inflatable pipeline on the street blocking the entrance to the driveway to FERC's employee parking lot from 7am to early afternoon, successfully preventing them from accessing the workplace. Activists are demanding a halt to the permitting and building of all new fossil fuel pipelines and other infrastructure. There were no arrests. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

In honor of World Ocean Day 2018, NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio, City Officials and hundreds of students from New York City schools gathered at New York City Hall steps on May 30, 2018, to urge City Council Members to pass Int 135, a bill to ban expanded polystyrene foam (EPS, or commonly called "styrofoam") and to oppose the industry-backed legislation to recycle EPS. In 2013, NYC Council voted “yes’ to ban foam, but two industry-funded lawsuits have blocked this law. Students want their voices heard for for plastic-free oceans and to protect the health of marine wildlife, seafood and humans. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

The Jewish Youth Climate Movement, with support from the interfaith organization GreenFaith, led a non-violent civil disobedience action on October 18, 2021 outside of BlackRock’s New York headquarters to demand the global asset management firm stop funding the fossil fuel industry. Police arrested at least nine people -including three rabbis- who were demonstrating as part of the protest against BlackRock. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

About 30 members of activist group Rise and Resist were arrested after disrupting "Business As Usual" at a Climate Emergency protest outside the Bloomberg Global Business Forum held at the Plaza Hotel at 59th Street and 5th Avenue on September 25, 2019, blocking traffic at the intersection to protest the continued investment in the carbon economy despite overwhelming scientific evidence that to do so endangers human survival. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

About 30 members of activist group Rise and Resist were arrested after disrupting "Business As Usual" at a Climate Emergency protest outside the Bloomberg Global Business Forum held at the Plaza Hotel at 59th Street and 5th Avenue on September 25, 2019, blocking traffic at the intersection to protest the continued investment in the carbon economy despite overwhelming scientific evidence that to do so endangers human survival. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Cynthia Nixon, Candidate for NY Governor, held a press conference on July 13, 2018 with local community leaders calling on New York State to shut down the Spectra/Enbridge AIM Pipeline. The recently installed 42" diameter fracked gas pipeline, located within 105' of critical safety infrastructure of the aging and failing nuclear power plant. The site also holds 40 years worth of radioactive spent nuclear fuel in overcrowded and inadequate containers. Nixon urged New York Public Service Commission (PSC) to use authority delegated by Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to ensure the shut down of gas through AIM pipeline. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Local climate activists participated in the global launch of the Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card on March 20, 2019. In New York city, Kim Fraczek, director of Sane Energy Project, hand-delivered the Report Card 2019 at the global headquarters of JP Morgan Chase. On the eve of the report release, Chase Bank branches were illuminated by light projections related to the report finds. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

On May 16, 2023 Climate Activists with Dayenu, Jewish Climate Action, Third Act NYC and XRNYC held a rally outside JPMorgan Chase headquarters in Manhattan, delivering a petition demanding JPMorgan Chase to denounce, divest and defund Formosa Plastics toxic and racist petrochemical complex. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Following the Public Service Commission meeting on January 16, 2020, New Yorkers held a brief sit-in protest at the Hall of Governors to highlight Governor Cuomo’s complicity in the approval of fracked gas infrastructure and failure of climate leadership to get New York off gas in a time frame climate science and now State climate law demands. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Activists covered the Wall Street Bull in blood and perform a die-in around it in an act of civil disobedience on October 7, 2019, as Extinction Rebellion activists started a week of action around the world to highlight their environmental campaign with a wide-ranging series of protests demanding new climate policies. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Activists covered the Wall Street Bull in blood and perform a die-in around it in an act of civil disobedience on October 7, 2019, as Extinction Rebellion activists started a week of action around the world to highlight their environmental campaign with a wide-ranging series of protests demanding new climate policies. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Activists with Seeding Sovereignty and The Illuminator projected images on the side of KKR headquarters building in New York City on September 26, 2020 in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement and the Wet’suwet’en Nation in their opposition to a Coastal GasLink pipeline entering their traditional territory in British Columbia, Canada. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

NY youth, leaders representing hundreds of community, social justice, environmental and climate organizations wrote and delivered an open letter to Democratic Party US Senate leader Chuck Schumer on December 3, 2018 urging him to oppose Bernard Mcnamee for FERC Commissioner and Joe Manchin as Energy And Natural Resources Committee ranking member. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

New York Senator Brian Kavanagh - 60 New York City area elected officials have signed on to a letter opposing the Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) fracked gas pipeline. Many of them, including NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, joined New Yorkers and youth climate strikers on the steps of City Hall on March 15, 2019 to call on Governor Cuomo and the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to stop the controversial pipeline. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

NYC-DSA and allies dropped a banner and held a picketing outside Con Ed’s offices in Manhattan on May 20, 2019 as shareholders enter the building for their annual shareholders’ meeting. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

In a line that stretched upwards of a mile, over 700 New Yorkers marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on April 18, 2019 to demand Governor Andrew Cuomo to block the controversial Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) Pipeline, which would carry fracked gas through New York Harbor. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

In a line that stretched upwards of a mile, over 700 New Yorkers marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on April 18, 2019 to demand Governor Andrew Cuomo to block the controversial Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) Pipeline, which would carry fracked gas through New York Harbor. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

In a line that stretched upwards of a mile, over 700 New Yorkers marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on April 18, 2019 to demand Governor Andrew Cuomo to block the controversial Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) Pipeline, which would carry fracked gas through New York Harbor. (Photo by Erik McGregor)