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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 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 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Activists groups send a loud and clear message: DROP COAL! outside Morgan Stanley's global headquarters
Photo: 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)
Over a thousand people including environmental justice, faith-based, youth, Indigenous, and civil rights groups, labor unions, frontline communities, and other justice-focused organizations, took to the streets for climate, jobs, and justice. The Long Island Climate March joined the tens of thousands marching around the country in solidarity with the People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C. on April 29, 2017. This event was the largest climate mobilization since the election, and marks the end of the first 100 days of the Trump Administration
Greta Zarro, New York Organizer, Food & Water Watch - On June 29, 2017; New Yorkers across the state are standing together to urge Energy Independence for New York State by freeing it from big oil and gas; calling on Governor Cuomo to declare energy independence and urge him to use the State’s powers to say NO to fossil fuel infrastructure. Governor Cuomo and the Department of Environmental Conservation must deny permits, Water Quality Certifications, or other regulatory approvals for transmission pipelines, power generating plants, compressor stations, and all fossil fuel infrastructure projects. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
On June 29, 2017; New Yorkers across the state are standing together to urge Energy Independence for New York State by freeing it from big oil and gas; calling on Governor Cuomo to declare energy independence and urge him to use the State’s powers to say NO to fossil fuel infrastructure. Governor Cuomo and the Department of Environmental Conservation must deny permits, Water Quality Certifications, or other regulatory approvals for transmission pipelines, power generating plants, compressor stations, and all fossil fuel infrastructure projects. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
On June 29, 2017; New Yorkers across the state are standing together to urge Energy Independence for New York State by freeing it from big oil and gas; calling on Governor Cuomo to declare energy independence and urge him to use the State’s powers to say NO to fossil fuel infrastructure. Governor Cuomo and the Department of Environmental Conservation must deny permits, Water Quality Certifications, or other regulatory approvals for transmission pipelines, power generating plants, compressor stations, and all fossil fuel infrastructure projects. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Members of the Stop Williams Pipeline Coalition visited Assemblymember Stacey Pfeffer-Amato and State Senator Joseph Addabbo on February 25, 2019 urging them to join over 40 NYC elected officials and sign on to a letter opposing the Williams NESE fracked gas pipeline slated for NYC shores just off the Rockaway Peninsula. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
A broad coalition of activists and community leaders rallied on May 7, 2018, outside JP Morgan Chase Headquarters on Park Avenue, along with 14 US cities for #ShutDownChase, a national day of action holding top US funder of extreme fossil fuels, JPMorgan Chase, accountable for its financing practices. Chase has claimed to support the Paris Agreement, yet has been ramping up its funding for the worst fossil fuels and in the process, has financed projects and companies that threaten Indigenous rights and culture. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Sane Energy Project coordinator Lee Ziesche. 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)
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)
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)
Community organizer Kevin LaCherra. 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)
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)
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)
Assembly Member William Colton. 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)
Alexandria Villaseñor, a 13-year-old climate justice activist who co-organized the youth climate strike in New York City and has been striking from school at the UN every Friday for 18 weeks - 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)
Petitions received and picked up by Governor Cuomo's staff - 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
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)
Sane Energy Project Director Kim Fraczek. Heating and Cooling Home and Business w Renewables at Bungalow Bar event space in Rockaway Beach. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Black Snake Killaz: a NoDAPL Story Film screening and fundraiser for Unicorn Riot independent media and the American Indian Community House. Unicorn Riot brings you the raw experience from many front-line actions throughout the struggles to protect the water. Although the Dakota Access Pipeline is completed, the impact of the movement will be long lasting. Hosted by Sane Energy Project and American Indian Community House at DCTV. (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)
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)
Over a thousand people including environmental justice, faith-based, youth, Indigenous, and civil rights groups, labor unions, frontline communities, and other justice-focused organizations, took to the streets for climate, jobs, and justice. The Long Island Climate March joined the tens of thousands marching around the country in solidarity with the People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C. on April 29, 2017. This event was the largest climate mobilization since the election, and marks the end of the first 100 days of the Trump Administration
Sharon Persinger Treasurer of PSC-CUNY - On June 29, 2017; New Yorkers across the state are standing together to urge Energy Independence for New York State by freeing it from big oil and gas; calling on Governor Cuomo to declare energy independence and urge him to use the Stateâs powers to say NO to fossil fuel infrastructure. Governor Cuomo and the Department of Environmental Conservation must deny permits, Water Quality Certifications, or other regulatory approvals for transmission pipelines, power generating plants, compressor stations, and all fossil fuel infrastructure projects. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 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
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)
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)
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)