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)

Heating and Cooling Home and Business w Renewables at Bungalow Bar event space in Rockaway Beach. (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)

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)

8am crew planning meeting. 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)

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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)

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 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)

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)

Community members from across North Brooklyn joined climate activist group Extinction Rebellion NYC at a rally on Manhattan Avenue and Moore Street near the construction site of National Grid’s controversial Metropolitan Reliability Infrastructure (MRI) project shutting down again construction for the day on February 29, 2020. Community calls for immediate, permanent halt of construction and on Mayor De Blasio, and Governor Cuomo to oppose project. (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)

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)

Energy Transfer Partners has targeted our beloved friend, water protector and bad ass grandma, Ellen Gerhart for refusing to give in to their bullying tactics, on July 27 Ellen Gerhart was sentenced to 2-6 months in jail for peacefully defending her land from Energy Transfer Partners’ Mariner 2 pipeline. in NYC, we stand in solidarity with Ellen and will keep fighting till ever community is free from fracked gas pipelines. (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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Governor Cuomo is the keynote speaker at a New York League of Conservation Voters fundraiser at Chelsea Piers, Pier 60 on May 14, 2018; and we'll be picketing outside, calling on him to stop all new oil and gas projects and move New York to 100 percent renewable energy. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Kim Fraczek, Director, Sane Energy - 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)

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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)

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)

Residents from Brownsville, Brooklyn, disrupted National Grid’s construction site on December 10, 2020 at the intersection of Junius St. and Linden Boulevard halting their so-called Metropolitan Reliability Infrastructure Project, better known as the North Brooklyn Pipeline, successfully shutting it down for the day. (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)

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)

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)

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)

LaDonna Brave Bull Allard Water Protector, and a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota and South Dakota - 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)

Energy Transfer Partners has targeted our beloved friend, water protector and bad ass grandma, Ellen Gerhart for refusing to give in to their bullying tactics, on July 27 Ellen Gerhart was sentenced to 2-6 months in jail for peacefully defending her land from Energy Transfer Partners’ Mariner 2 pipeline. in NYC, we stand in solidarity with Ellen and will keep fighting till ever community is free from fracked gas pipelines. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Activists rallied outside JPMorgan Chase’s headquarters on February 27, 2018; at the bank’s annual ‘Investor Day.’ Groups ranging from Rainforest Action Network, the American Indian Community House and Sane Energy Project demanded that the bank defund tar sands, one of the dirtiest fossil fuels on the planet. (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)

Activists rallied outside JPMorgan Chase’s headquarters on February 27, 2018; at the bank’s annual ‘Investor Day.’ Groups ranging from Rainforest Action Network, the American Indian Community House and Sane Energy Project demanded that the bank defund tar sands, one of the dirtiest fossil fuels on the planet. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

JPMorgan Chase’s headquarters in Manhattan - Activists rallied outside JPMorgan Chase’s headquarters on February 27, 2018; at the bank’s annual ‘Investor Day.’ Groups ranging from Rainforest Action Network, the American Indian Community House and Sane Energy Project demanded that the bank defund tar sands, one of the dirtiest fossil fuels on the planet. (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)

John Franceschina, Senior Manager for Lockheed Martin’s Energy Efficiency and Demand Response program for PSEG Long Island. Heating and Cooling Home and Business w Renewables at Bungalow Bar event space in Rockaway Beach. (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)

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)

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)

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 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)

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)

Governor Cuomo is the keynote speaker at a New York League of Conservation Voters fundraiser at Chelsea Piers, Pier 60 on May 14, 2018; and we'll be picketing outside, calling on him to stop all new oil and gas projects and move New York to 100 percent renewable energy. (Photo by Erik McGregor)