Divest / Invest group - Peoples Climate Movement 2018 Kick-off event is a city-wide organizing meeting on learning how you can get more involved in climate campaigns. Followed by brief updates on the exciting work of several campaigns and breaking groups focused on how we can strengthen and expand climate action in New York City and NY State, as well as nationally. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Bill McKibben, author and 350.org co-founder - Mayor Bill de Blasio, Comptroller Scott M. Stringer and other trustees of the City’s pension funds announced on January 10, 2018; a goal to divest City funds from fossil fuel reserve owners within five years, which would make New York City the first major US pension plan to do so. In total, the City’s five pension funds hold roughly $5 billion in the securities of over 190 fossil fuel companies. The City’s move is among the most significant divestment efforts in the world to date. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

This week defense attorney David Dorfman made a compelling case that his clients Rebecca Berlin, David Publow and Janet González crawled into a segment of 42 inch diameter steel pipe in Cortlandt, New York in October 2016, halting construction of the Spectra/Enbridge AIM pipeline for 18 hours, in order to prevent a greater harm. (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)

The Indigenous Peoples Day NYC Committee (IPDNYC), a coalition of 13 Indigenous Peoples and indigenous-led organizations gathered outside the Canadian Consulate and Permanent Mission to the United Nations on February 18, 2020, to support the Wet’suwet’en Nation in their opposition to a Coastal GasLink pipeline scheduled to enter their traditional territory in British Columbia, Canada. (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)

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)

Climate activists gathered on June 14, 2023 at Brooklyn Borough Hall for a teach-in and art action highlighting successful initiatives implemented this year to combat the climate crisis, reduce consumers' energy expenses, and expose the obstructive climate hypocrisy of National Grid and ConEdison at both the city and state levels. The Brooklyn event coincided with more than 50 actions across the country, called by the People vs. Fossil Fuels coalition, in angry response to Bidenâs approval of the liquified natural gas (LNG) and Willow oil projects in Alaska and the debt ceiling deal that fast-tracks the Mountain Valley Pipeline. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Local climate activists, working with the Insure Our Future Network, gathered outside Tokio Marine Headquarters in Manhattan on March 25, 2021 calling on insurance giant to stop underwriting and investing in fossil fuel projects driving catastrophic climate change. (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)

Opening comments from Leslie Cagan, a leader in the Peoples Climate Movement NY - Peoples Climate Movement 2018 Kick-off event is a city-wide organizing meeting on learning how you can get more involved in climate campaigns. Followed by brief updates on the exciting work of several campaigns and breaking groups focused on how we can strengthen and expand climate action in New York City and NY State, as well as nationally. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Cynthia Nixon, a lifelong New Yorker, actor, progressive advocate and candidate running for governor presented her Climate Justice Agenda on April 20, 2018, at the YMCA in the Rockaways. (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)

UFT President Michael Mulgrew - Mayor Bill de Blasio, Comptroller Scott M. Stringer and other trustees of the City’s pension funds announced on January 10, 2018; a goal to divest City funds from fossil fuel reserve owners within five years, which would make New York City the first major US pension plan to do so. In total, the City’s five pension funds hold roughly $5 billion in the securities of over 190 fossil fuel companies. The City’s move is among the most significant divestment efforts in the world to date. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Local climate activists, working with the Insure Our Future Network, gathered outside Tokio Marine Headquarters in Manhattan on March 25, 2021 calling on insurance giant to stop underwriting and investing in fossil fuel projects driving catastrophic climate change. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Puerto Rico Recovery collection - Peoples Climate Movement 2018 Kick-off event is a city-wide organizing meeting on learning how you can get more involved in climate campaigns. Followed by brief updates on the exciting work of several campaigns and breaking groups focused on how we can strengthen and expand climate action in New York City and NY State, as well as nationally. (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)

Stop The Williams Pipeline Coalition core group - The Stop The Williams Pipeline Coalition held a rally and press conference at the steps of City Hall on May 16, 2019 to celebrate victory after the New York State DEC conditionally rejects toxic and unnecessary pipeline in the face of threatened moratoriums, New Yorkers vow this pipeline will never be built. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Supporters of renewable heat gathered in New York’s Capitol Building on December 6, 2017; to demonstrate their support for renewable heating. Homeowners, energy activists, and installers called on Governor Cuomo and New York State to aggressively ramp up support for renewable heating technologies, such as ground-source (geothermal) and air-source heat pumps, in order to reduce New York’s dependence on fossil fuels and meet New York’s greenhouse gas reduction goals. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Supporters of renewable heat gathered in New York’s Capitol Building on December 6, 2017; to demonstrate their support for renewable heating. Homeowners, energy activists, and installers called on Governor Cuomo and New York State to aggressively ramp up support for renewable heating technologies, such as ground-source (geothermal) and air-source heat pumps, in order to reduce New York’s dependence on fossil fuels and meet New York’s greenhouse gas reduction goals. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Supporters of renewable heat gathered in New York’s Capitol Building on December 6, 2017; to demonstrate their support for renewable heating. Homeowners, energy activists, and installers called on Governor Cuomo and New York State to aggressively ramp up support for renewable heating technologies, such as ground-source (geothermal) and air-source heat pumps, in order to reduce New York’s dependence on fossil fuels and meet New York’s greenhouse gas reduction goals. (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)

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)

10 people from the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion NYC were arrested in Bushwick on February 28, 2020 for blocking the construction of the North Brooklyn fracked gas transmission pipeline for over 2 hours in a non-violent civil disobedience protest of this massive fossil fuel project. (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)

Alexandria Villaseñor, organizer with Earth Uprising. CHOOSE US - Youth Climate Strike Demands Solutions And Action Now. A conversation with youth climate leaders, moderated by former Vice President and Climate Reality Project founder Al Gore, to learn how to move their demands forward with the urgency required by the global climate crisis held on September 23, 2019 at The New York Society for Ethical Culture. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Local climate activists, working with the Insure Our Future Network, gathered outside AIG Headquarters in Manhattan on March 1, 2021 to throw an “office warming” party complete with cake, and balloons welcoming AIG’s new CEO, Peter Zaffino--and to demand that AIG take action on climate change. (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)

Over 100 New Yorkers joined Environmental Organizations on Earth Day -April 22, 2025- at the steps of City Hall to rally for the NY HEAT Act, a major climate and affordability bill that would cut emissions and saving low and moderate income New Yorkers an average of $164 per month. Supported by top lawmakers —including U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, NYC Comptroller Brad Lander, City Councilmember Erik Bottcher, and representatives from the Office of the Public Advocate— community members and environmental leaders urged Speaker Heastie and Governor Hochul to pass the bill in this year’s state budget. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Lee Ziesche, organizer with Sane Energy Project - 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)

Nine arrests were reported at the US Extinction Rebellion (XR), the first major New York City civil disobedience action of a dynamic, bold new environmental movement. A nonviolent action was organized on January 26, 2019 to temporarily shut down Rockefeller Plaza, a prominent New York City landmark to create awareness of the extreme peril of the climate change emergency through a nationwide day of nonviolent civil disobedience and protest. (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)

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)

Hundreds of New Yorkers still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Ida, marched to Citigroup Headquarters and the NY Federal Reserve on October 29, 2021 to demand two of the city’s iconic financial institutions stop the pipeline of money flowing to the fossil fuel industry. The actions were part of a day of international escalation with disruptions targeting financial institutions in 50 cities on six continents to protest the role of the financial sector in fueling the biggest threat to global financial security: climate change. (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)

Jamie Margolin, Zero Hour Founder and Co-Executive Director. CHOOSE US - Youth Climate Strike Demands Solutions And Action Now. A conversation with youth climate leaders, moderated by former Vice President and Climate Reality Project founder Al Gore, to learn how to move their demands forward with the urgency required by the global climate crisis held on September 23, 2019 at The New York Society for Ethical Culture. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Expanding on the momentum of the quickly growing national movement to hold Chase Bank accountable for its central role in funding the global fossil fuel industry, dozens of New York residents with the organization Rise and Resist, with co-sponsor Rainforest Action Network stormed the new JPMorgan Chase headquarters in central Manhattan on November 20, 2019 demanding the megabank end its massive financing of the climate crisis. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

PSC CUNY at the Climate Strike. (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)

Activists with Rainforest Action Network took on Chase Bank lobbies in Manhattan on February 14, 2019 to deliver a "Valentine's Singing Telegram" to shame CEO Jamie Dimon for funding private prisons and fossil fuels, on a day of action against Wall Street's largest funder of both industries. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Financing the Future: Aligning Finance with the Paris Agreement's Promise. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Local climate activists, working with the Insure Our Future Network, gathered outside AIG Headquarters in Manhattan on May 12, 2021 during their annual shareholders meeting to demand that AIG take action on climate change. (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)

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)

Members of the Stop the Williams Pipeline NY Coalition gathered in Albany on February 7, 2019 for a press conference before delivering more than 14,400 petition signatures calling on the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Governor Andrew Cuomo to walk the talk on climate action and stop the Williams fracked gas pipeline. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Supporters of renewable heat gathered in New York’s Capitol Building on December 6, 2017; to demonstrate their support for renewable heating. Homeowners, energy activists, and installers called on Governor Cuomo and New York State to aggressively ramp up support for renewable heating technologies, such as ground-source (geothermal) and air-source heat pumps, in order to reduce New York’s dependence on fossil fuels and meet New York’s greenhouse gas reduction goals. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

North Brooklyn community members and elected officials packed the Polish Slavic Center in Brooklyn, on February 5, 2020 for an information meeting about 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)

North Brooklyn community members and elected officials packed the Polish Slavic Center in Brooklyn, on February 5, 2020 for an information meeting about 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)