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)

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)

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New Yorkers took direct action outside Governor Andrew Cuomo’s New York City office on November 2, 2018 sending a clear message: Be a real climate leader and stop the Williams NESE Pipeline. Dozens of activists rallied before dropping a 25-foot banner across the street, and delivering a letter opposing the pipeline signed by 211 New York organizations. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

New Yorkers took direct action outside Governor Andrew Cuomo’s New York City office on November 2, 2018 sending a clear message: Be a real climate leader and stop the Williams NESE Pipeline. Dozens of activists rallied before dropping a 25-foot banner across the street, and delivering a letter opposing the pipeline signed by 211 New York organizations. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Fourth day for the six people on trial in Cortlandt, NY for trespassing for an action that halted construction on the Spectra/Enbridge AIM fracked gas pipeline for 16 hours in 2016 will be allowed to argue that their actions were necessary to prevent imminent harm. The decision by Judge Ragazzo to allow the necessity defense comes on the heels of the release of the executive summary of an Independent Risk Assessment from Governor Cuomo’s administration that acknowledged unanswered questions and echoed years of safety concerns of experts and community members alike. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Impacted residents and supporters from across the Northeast, including local farmers, used a tractor blockade and climbed a 275ft tall smokestack halting construction of the Cricket Valley fracked gas power plant for a day on November 6, 2019, citing the plant’s large contribution to climate change and local air pollution, they are calling on Governor Cuomo to shut down the fracked gas power plant for good. (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)

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)

Defendants' attorney David Dorfman delivering open statement - Six people who are on trial in Cortlandt, NY for trespassing for an action that halted construction on the Spectra/Enbridge AIM fracked gas pipeline for 16 hours in 2016 will be allowed to argue that their actions were necessary to prevent imminent harm. The decision by Judge Ragazzo to allow the necessity defense comes on the heels of the release of the executive summary of an Independent Risk Assessment from Governor Cuomo’s administration that acknowledged unanswered questions and echoed years of safety concerns of experts and community members alike. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer - 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)

Impacted residents and supporters from across the Northeast, including local farmers, used a tractor blockade and climbed a 275ft tall smokestack halting construction of the Cricket Valley fracked gas power plant for a day on November 6, 2019, citing the plant’s large contribution to climate change and local air pollution, they are calling on Governor Cuomo to shut down the fracked gas power plant for good. (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)

Kim Fraczek, Director of Sane Energy Project - Environmental activists, organizations and principled progressives organized the ‘Love NY Don't Frack It Up’ rally on February 14, 2018; outside the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in Manhattan, where Governor Cuomo’s former top staffer, Joseph Percoco, goes to trial on corruption charges. The Percoco trial reveals the intimate relationship between fossil fuel lobbyists and government officials, which harmed New York residents by permitting the development of the dangerous CPV Valley power plant at the center of the corruption trial. (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)

Four Water Defenders took action along the Hudson, interrupting plans to pull AIM pipeline under the river by occupying pipeline construction site to Stop Spectra Energy’s AIM Pipeline. A rally of 130 people marched to the pipeline site, singing and showing solidarity with the defenders and pledging to continue the fight.

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)

After being found guilty of trespassing Cortlandt judge Kimberly Ragazzo ruled Unconditional Discharge in case of the Spectra "Algonquin" Pipeline Crawlers who halted construction in October of 2016. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

NYC Public Advocate Tish James - 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)

More than 1500 people took the streest of Albany and marched fom Sheridan Hollow to the Capitol Building on April 23, 2018 as part of the "Cuomo Walk The Talk" day of action, governor's seat candidates participated in the protest, Democrat Cynthia Nixon marched the streets of Albany and Green Party's Howie Hawkins marched and got arrested later at the Hall of Governors in the Capitol Building. Actor and activist James Cromwell was also among the 55 people arrested at the Hall of Governors in a non-violent act of civil disobedience, demanding Cuomo to stop all fracking infrastructure, move to 100% renewable energy, and make polluters pay. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

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)

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On June 13, 2020 Activists with the No NBK Pipeline Coalition and community members gathered again in the streets of Bushwick to speak out against National Grid and to demand the just, renewable energy future proposed by Governor Cuomo, walking along the active pipeline construction to outreach to local businesses and residents. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Four Water Defenders took action along the Hudson, interrupting plans to pull AIM pipeline under the river by occupying pipeline construction site to Stop Spectra Energy’s AIM Pipeline. A rally of 130 people marched to the pipeline site, singing and showing solidarity with the defenders and pledging to continue the fight.

On March 17, 2017; New Yorkers delivered over 51,000 petitions to Governor Cuomo's Office in Manhattan, urging him to

reject the 401 Water Quality Certificate for Spectra Energy’s high-pressure, high-volume, fracked-gas Atlantic Bridge pipeline and to shut down the Algonquin pipeline expansion in New York

More than 1500 people took the streest of Albany and marched fom Sheridan Hollow to the Capitol Building on April 23, 2018 as part of the "Cuomo Walk The Talk" day of action, governor's seat candidates participated in the protest, Democrat Cynthia Nixon marched the streets of Albany and Green Party's Howie Hawkins marched and got arrested later at the Hall of Governors in the Capitol Building. Actor and activist James Cromwell was also among the 55 people arrested at the Hall of Governors in a non-violent act of civil disobedience, demanding Cuomo to stop all fracking infrastructure, move to 100% renewable energy, and make polluters pay. (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)

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)

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)

Megan Dyer with Mothers Our Front in Westchester. 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)

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)

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 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)

Tri-States Unite for Safe Energy, Complete it Cuomo, FracTracker Alliance, Sane Energy Project, Protect Orange County, Sustainable Warwick and Working Films are hosting a night of films, discussion, and story sharing as a part of the YOU ARE HERE tour at The Space at Greenstar in Ithaca New York

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Four Water Defenders took action along the Hudson, interrupting plans to pull AIM pipeline under the river by occupying pipeline construction site to Stop Spectra Energy’s AIM Pipeline. A rally of 130 people marched to the pipeline site, singing and showing solidarity with the defenders and pledging to continue the fight.

Resist AIM sainted by Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir - The Earth Wants You! Premiere at Joe's Pub

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Enabling equity in energy democracy: the roles of

government, community and businesses -

Jen Metzger, Councilwoman (Rosendale Town) and

Co-Director, Citizens for Local Power

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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)

Tom Ross, local organizer with Sane Energy Project - 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)

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)

RAN Activists writing with coal on the giant petition unfolded on the sidewalk outside Morgan Stanley New York Headquarters

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Activists from the No North Brooklyn Pipeline Coalition organized a bike caravan protest on June 6, 2020 along the entire route (7 miles) of the North Brooklyn fracked gas pipeline, from Brownsville to Greenpoint, to expose National Grid’s pipeline and how it is a clear example of environmental racism, forcing communities of color and low-income neighborhoods to bear the burden of the pollution and cost of this unnecessary fossil fuel expansion. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

On September 9, 2017 at Chase Bank in New York City, Sane Energy Project participated in a National Day of Action against Energy Transfer Partners, core member and documentary filmmaker, Lee Ziesche, spent time at Camp White Pine, and read aloud her recently published article about the encampment. Puppeteers illustrated the article with 8 foot tall trees and a zipline with a silhouette of Elise Gerhart. After the presentation and reading, the group "planted" small trees inside Chase Bank with the story of Camp White Pine. (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)

Kim Fraczek, director of Sane Energy Project - 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)

More than 1500 people took the streest of Albany and marched fom Sheridan Hollow to the Capitol Building on April 23, 2018 as part of the "Cuomo Walk The Talk" day of action, governor's seat candidates participated in the protest, Democrat Cynthia Nixon marched the streets of Albany and Green Party's Howie Hawkins marched and got arrested later at the Hall of Governors in the Capitol Building. Actor and activist James Cromwell was also among the 55 people arrested at the Hall of Governors in a non-violent act of civil disobedience, demanding Cuomo to stop all fracking infrastructure, move to 100% renewable energy, and make polluters pay. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

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)

Build Music Into Our Climate Movement: Build Power, Connection - Sane Energy brought musician and teacher Nick Demeris, who studied under Bobby McFerrin to NYC to lead the "Human Instrument" workshop on June 17, 20148 at El Jardín del Paraíso: the garden on E. 5th between Ave C & D. (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)