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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio - 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)
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)
Roxi Sharif, a constituent of Senator Todd Kaminsky - 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)
Joe Verone, a constituent of Senator Todd Kaminsky - 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)
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)
Sailor from Surfrider NYC - 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)
The auction of a South Philadelphia refinery in Manhattan prompted a regional protest of fossil fuels as Philadelphia activists, New York activists, faith leaders, seniors and youth stormed the lobby of Kirkland & Ellis LLP offices in Manhattan on January 17, 2020 with a creative disruption using banners, signs and a die-in to express public opposition to the refinery reopening. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
As global leaders assemble for the 4th Annual Climate Finance Day, New Yorkers, including representatives from environmental, community and student groups, held a rally at City Hall on November 28, 2018 and call on NYC to divest public money from banks that fuel climate change and to establish a municipal public bank to help fund the transition to a just, sustainable economy. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Council Member Costa Constantinides - 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)
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)
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli discussed the future of the 6 billion dollars in pension funds at an event at the New School in New York City on March 26, 2018. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Fossil Free Divest NY, in coordination with community members and dozens of groups across America, held a rally outside the office of the New York State Comptroller in New York City, on May 14, 2018, to press NY State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli divest the state pension fund from its $6 billion in fossil fuel holdings, including $1 billion in ExxonMobil. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Activist group Earth Strike NYC announced a radical frontline coalition gathering in Sunset Park on September 27, 2019 to support UPROSE in its campaign for local community-led climate justice at the Communities Strike For Climate Over Colonialism rally and march. Hundreds supported the event that comes as part of a global strike day organized by Earth Strike, marking the last major event of this year’s climate week. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Activist group Earth Strike NYC announced a radical frontline coalition gathering in Sunset Park on September 27, 2019 to support UPROSE in its campaign for local community-led climate justice at the Communities Strike For Climate Over Colonialism rally and march. Hundreds supported the event that comes as part of a global strike day organized by Earth Strike, marking the last major event of this year’s climate week. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
A group of #ClimateStrike activists dropped a banner over the entrance to the Consolidated Edison Headquarters in downtown Manhattan on September 24, 2019, with the message "Con Ed's Rate Hike Plan Fails the Climate Test. #Climate Strike Utilities". This is one act in a growing movement directed at corporate utilities that are abusing their monopoly status to raise already exorbitant rates, and use that money to fund massive expansions of fracked gas pipelines, liquefied natural gas storage tanks, and other fracked gas support infrastructure throughout New York City and New York State. (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
The auction of a South Philadelphia refinery in Manhattan prompted a regional protest of fossil fuels as Philadelphia activists, New York activists, faith leaders, seniors and youth stormed the lobby of Kirkland & Ellis LLP offices in Manhattan on January 17, 2020 with a creative disruption using banners, signs and a die-in to express public opposition to the refinery reopening. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
In view of major steel industry executives from around the world at the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square, climate advocates with Public Citizen and SteelWatch dropped a banner from the railings of the 7th floor that read âGreen Steel Nowâ with images of a burning Earth. Advocates also distributed green steel fact sheets to attendees during conference sessions. This follows the global launch of SteelWatch, the new climate watchdog for the steel industry which took place on Monday at the same venue. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Hundreds of climate activivsts gathered outside the CNN studios at 30 Hudson Yards where a Town Hall on Climate Policy was held on September 4, 2019 to tell the leading Democratic Party presidential candidates that it’s time for them all to commit to the boldest and fastest climate actions now. (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)
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)
Climate activists with Stop the Money Pipeline held a rally in midtown Manhattan on March 3, 2021 first at BlackRock’s HQ and then march to JP Morgan Chase’ HQ, -two of the world’s biggest funders of climate destruction in their opinion- to urge the two companies to end their support for the dangerous proposed Line 3 pipeline project, and stop funding fossil fuels and forest destruction. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Climate activists with Stop the Money Pipeline held a rally in midtown Manhattan on March 3, 2021 first at BlackRock’s HQ and then march to JP Morgan Chase’ HQ, -two of the world’s biggest funders of climate destruction in their opinion- to urge the two companies to end their support for the dangerous proposed Line 3 pipeline project, and stop funding fossil fuels and forest destruction. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
As CEO Jamie Dimon testifies in front of the House Financial Services Committee Hearing, a large coalition of activists and community leaders rallied across the country on April 10, 2019 in a national day of action holding the world’s worst funder of fossil fuels, JPMorgan Chase, accountable for its financing practices. In New York City, activists unfurled a giant banner in Park Avenue across JP Morgan Chase headquarters. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
New York renewable energy advocacy groups kicked off a state-wide week of action named #CuomoWalktheTalk -- #OffFossilFuels campaign! on November 13, 2017; outside Governor Andrew Cuomo's offices in Manhattan. In the next six months, November - April, local groups will organize synchronized actions with parallel messaging at the front-lines of their own energy battles throughout New York State as we move closer to a convergence Albany in April of 2018. (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)
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)
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)
Environmental advocates with Climate Fast NJ engaged on a 14 days fast to call on New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy to enact a moratorium on pipelines, power plants and all new fossil fuel expansion projects currently proposed in our communities and through our water sources. Beginning right after the November 6th election, a water-only fast was held outside the offices of Governor Phil Murphy at New Jersey State House in Trenton; in solidarity with front line communities opposing the dozen new dirty energy proposals in New Jersey. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Jerry Acton, an engineer with PSE Healthy Energy presented his research which dispels the fossil fuel industry myth that expanding fracked gas will lower greenhouse gas emissions. At a press conference before the monthly Public Service Commission (PSC) meeting on December 12, 2019 New Yorkers from across the state called on the PSC to reject Con Ed’s proposed rate hike which will raise electricity rates over the next three years by a compounded 16% and gas rates 25% for cooking customers and 34% for heating customers. Following the press conference, participants held a silent protest against gas infrastructure and in support of renewable heating during the PSC meeting. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
At a press conference before the monthly Public Service Commission (PSC) meeting on December 12, 2019 New Yorkers from across the state called on the PSC to reject Con Ed’s proposed rate hike which will raise electricity rates over the next three years by a compounded 16% and gas rates 25% for cooking customers and 34% for heating customers. Following the press conference, participants held a silent protest against gas infrastructure and in support of renewable heating during the PSC meeting. (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)
A clear message to Governor Andrew Cuomo struck the heart of Times Square this Valentine's Day. A building-side message was displayed on February 14, 2019 calling the Governor to "Be a real climate leader and stop the Williams fracked gas pipeline". (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
DAY 2 - New Yorkers started a 3-day Climate Hunger Strike outside Governor Cuomo’s Midtown Manhattan office on May 14, 2019 ahead of New York State’s May 16 permitting deadline for the Williams NESE fracked gas pipeline proposed for New York Harbor. The women ranging from ages 21 to 75, are sitting outside the office on a water-only hunger strike from 8am-7pm each day until a decision is made on the pipeline. (Photo by Erik McGregor)