Alvin Peña representing State Senator Julia Salazar's office. 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)

Food & Water Watch Climate and Energy Forum: Building a Movement for a Safe, Healthy, and Just Future

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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)

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)

Bushwick residents, community activists and allies gathered on November 25, 2019 at Our Wicked Lady event space for the first informational and organizing event to stop the North Brooklyn Fracked Gas Pipeline. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

On December 20 in Hempstead, NY, as the first offshore wind project in New York gets approval, a huge crowd of elected officials, environmental groups, activists and concerned New Yorkers rally to support Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) and ask for offshore wind commitment in New York - Adrienne Esposito, Executive Director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment said: “It’s been a marathon of work and effort to bring wind power to Long Island, but we are at the last mile and moving closer to the finish line”

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)

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)

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)

Baba Brinkman's RAP GUIDE TO CLIMATE CHAOS - Rap for Sane Energy!

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Resist AIM Fundraiser Party - Fred Gillen Jr. and Jenny Murphy

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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)

Kim Fraczek from Sane Energy Project addressing the crowd outside Morgan Stanley's global headquarters

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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)

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)

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)

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)

After over a year in and out of the court system trial for ResistSpectra's very first direct action against Spectra Energy's Northeast Expansion Pipeline (AIM, Atlantic Bridge, Access Northeast -- ONE pipeline disguised at 3 different pipelines), the Montrose9 were unjustly found guilty by Judge Daniel McCarthy, sentenced to 5 hours of community service and a fine plus surcharges.

Members of the Stop the Williams Pipeline in NY Harbor sent a message to Governor Cuomo, the Manhattan Bridge over the East River was illuminated by light projections reminding him that the clock is ticking for Cuomo to block this fracked gas project, which would run through New York Harbor. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Racing to Energy Democracy in the US and New York -

Why centering community, racial equity, and justice are critical to a

successful transition to a new energy economy.

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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)

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)

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)

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)

Banners and Flags Making for April Albany Climate Action - We're getting folks together at the People's Puppets of OWS Studio in Gowanus on April 7-8 from 2pm-8pm. Come make art with Sane Energy, People's Puppets, Food & Water Watch, People's Climate Movement, New York Renews and more! We have a big day coming up on April 23rd, and we need our message to be bold! Cuomo: Walk The Talk on Climate! (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Banners and Flags Making for April Albany Climate Action - We're getting folks together at the People's Puppets of OWS Studio in Gowanus on April 7-8 from 2pm-8pm. Come make art with Sane Energy, People's Puppets, Food & Water Watch, People's Climate Movement, New York Renews and more! We have a big day coming up on April 23rd, and we need our message to be bold! Cuomo: Walk The Talk on Climate! (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Nichols Silbersack representing Comptroller Scott Stringer's office - 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)

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)

Food & Water Watch organizer Laura Shindell - 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)

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)

Speaker of the New York City Council Corey Johnson - 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)

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)

Banners and Flags Making for April Albany Climate Action - We're getting folks together at the People's Puppets of OWS Studio in Gowanus on April 7-8 from 2pm-8pm. Come make art with Sane Energy, People's Puppets, Food & Water Watch, People's Climate Movement, New York Renews and more! We have a big day coming up on April 23rd, and we need our message to be bold! Cuomo: Walk The Talk on Climate! (Photo by Erik McGregor)

Baba Brinkman's RAP GUIDE TO CLIMATE CHAOS - Rap for Sane Energy!

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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 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

New York citizens and advocate groups for sustainable and renewable clean energy gathered together in Bryant Park and marched together to a public hearing to show their support for a clean energy initiative after the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) published a “Proposed Sale Notice (PSN) for Commercial Leasing for Wind Power on the Outer Continental Shelf Offshore New York” in the Federal Register on June 6, 2016, which includes a 60-day public comment period ending on August 5, 2016.

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

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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)

Patrick Houston from New York Communities for Change - 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)

Walter Meyer co-founder of Local Office Landscape and Urban Design (LOLA). Heating and Cooling Home and Business w Renewables at Bungalow Bar event space in Rockaway Beach. (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)

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)

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)

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)