Who will hold their
FEET to the FIRE?
Pressuring, educating, informing, participating
with links to other action and informational pages
Upstate activism:
Adirondacks and Greater Glens Falls/Queensbury/Lake George/ Fort Anne
Light Brigade pop ups on bridges, in marches, on the commons
Fridays on the bridge: Diane and Bernice and Pat hold the banner, collect honks; a presence comes alive.
Rockin Green Grannies and climate clock pop ups
Climate Clock on display at Crandall Library
Attending Queensbury Town Board
NCEA's Earth Action Squad member(s) attend Board meetings when pressure or requests are required to share Climate Crisis issues.
Attending Glens Falls Common Council
NCEA's Earth Action Squad member(s) attend Common Council meetings at least monthly to share and comment on Climate Crisis action
news.
Zero Waste Committee
contact EAS member, Diane Collins [email protected]
for on going work at the county level initiating awareness and actions around recycling and composting
Clean Air Action Network
addressing air and water pollution in the Greater Glens Falls area
chair, Tracy Frisch; www.cleanairactionnetwork.org
Warren County
contact Supervisor Claudia Braymer, also on the state wide NY Association of Counties Climate Action
Standing Committee; Ethan Gaddy Climate Smart Community
Town of Queensbury
Town of Queensbury Climate Action Plan
Indivisible ADK/Saratoga
Indivisible ADK/Saratoga
Taking Action
Water Quality Activism:
Assembly Point Water Quality Coalition
www.assemblypt.com
fighting for the health of Lake George and upstate lakes:
Adirondack Lobby day winter 2021: issues outlining water and climate issues relating to the Adirondacks
lobbying at state level
Outreach to Governors Cuomo and Hochul to get a lakewide septic inspection mandate
Partnering with the LGA to stay the application of chemicals in Lake George to control milfoil;defeated and ProcellaCOR applied summer 2024
Initiating a Rights of Nature movement
working to stem the spread of Japanese Knotweed
Working to encourage the Park Commission to create a Storm Water Management Retrofit program
Working to decrease land disturbance in development by passing stronger town codes, to adopt the LID committee recommendations of 2020, (Low Impact Development team, Chris Navitsky Waterkeeper Chair)
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National
elect officials who will work for climate solutions honestly
1/21/21 Biden formally rejoined The Paris Accord and cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline.
As of summer 2022 Demand that Biden declare a climate emergency:
Declaring a climate emergency would unlock unique statutory powers including the authority to:
The Build Back Better bill failed due to Congressional dysfunction, reduced version still pending summer 2022 as the Manchin Schumer bill
See The Earth Bill and the Peter Welch proposals on this website as possible bill alternatives
elect officials who will work for climate solutions honestly
1/21/21 Biden formally rejoined The Paris Accord and cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline.
As of summer 2022 Demand that Biden declare a climate emergency:
Declaring a climate emergency would unlock unique statutory powers including the authority to:
- Immediately reinstate the crude oil export ban;
- Direct the Secretary of Defense to redirect a portion of military spending to carry out a rapid construction program of renewable energy projects to meet a significant portion of the nation’s power needs; and
- Invoke the Defense Production Act to provide critical loan guarantees and ensure a comprehensive buildout of just, renewable energy development that creates millions of good union jobs.
- AND
- eliminate the filibuster
- AND
- deal with plastics: Please click here to sign the #PlasticFreePresident petition now >>
The Build Back Better bill failed due to Congressional dysfunction, reduced version still pending summer 2022 as the Manchin Schumer bill
See The Earth Bill and the Peter Welch proposals on this website as possible bill alternatives
Biden Plan Tracker:
www.climaterealitycapitalregionny.com
by the Federal Policy Working Group, a sub-team of The Climate Reality Project: Capital Region, NY Chapter. We are pleased to share the scorecard we created to monitor, encourage and recognize action by the presidential administration in completing their initial climate commitments.
Albany Initiatives and Actions
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GELF/CACN among a number of Albany activists groups who initiate upstate pressure on NYS governor: Pressure continues to be needed on Governor Hochul for 1. inclusions of the CCIA(Climate and Community Investment Act) into the CLCPA (Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act passed in June 2019). Call Governor Hochul 2. to sign the Crypto Moratorium and Thermal Bills passed by the NYS Assembly spring 2022 Albany resources: "PAUSE" local directory https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/A-business-directory-that-s-socially-responsible-15626060.php for -
Sign the petition to eliminate NYS subsidies to the Fossil Fuel Industry https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-funding-climate-destruction-and-pass-a257c/ A257C requires the Governor to identify all fossil fuel related tax expenditures and their effects on New York in his annual tax expenditure report. We call on the Assembly Government Operations Committee to vote in favor of the bill and Speaker Heastie to bring it to the floor for a vote. New York State- largest pension fund in the world to take comprehensive climate action, including fossil fuel divestment. The $226 billion state pension fund will review and divest from the riskiest oil and gas companies within 4 years and decarbonize the entire fund by 2040. This came after years of campaigning by the New York Youth Climate Leaders and the rest of the DivestNY coalition. Dec 8,2020 New York Youth Climate Leaders Divest NY Teachers Pension (NYSUT) www.divestnyteachers.org NYS ban plastic bags act went into effect spring 2020. It was put on pause during COVID and is back into effect late fall 2020. Contact Judith Enck if you see businesses/markets, stores packaging in single film plastic bags or take out styrofoam. NYS Passes the Green Amendment https://www.adk.org/nys-assembly-passes-a-green-amendment/ Announcement below for Judith Enck Plastics Course Bennington College
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past effective advocacy results: Judith Enck on Governor Cuomo signing the Norlite bill into law "Governor Andrew Cuomo did the right thing ...by signing legislation that will permanently ban the burning of toxic firefighting foam(PFOA's) at the Norlite hazardous waste incinerator in Cohoes, NY. Nov. 2020 Comments to the Public Serive commision on National Grid request for rate increase: Mark Schaeffer, People of Albany United for Safe Energy, the affiliate of 350.org (1) in the Capital Region November 25, 2020 1) The Climate and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) requires that all decisions by the PSC and other state agencies be consistent with the goals of reducing greehouse gas emissions in the electric power sector 70% by 2030, and 100% by 2040, and eliminating net GHG emissions by 2050 in the entire state economy. 2) Approving new infrastructure to expand the use of fossil fuels is inconsistent with that mandate, in this and all other proceedings. 3) National Grid is requesting that the PSC approve $42 million this year for new natural gas delivery infrastructure, and more to follow. 4) Natural gas is some 90% methane, a very powerful greenhouse gas with a climate impact more than 80x that CO2 per molecule over a twenty year time frame, about all the time left to meet the CLCPA mandate Ban Plastic course Bennington College Judith Enck,Former EPA Regional Administrator, President, Beyond Plastics www.beyondplastics.org Visiting Professor and Senior Fellow six-week online class in February 2021. [email protected], see document below for announcement for the course NY Youth Climate Leaders led a NYS lobbying day on Jan 11, 2021 with legislators to garner endorsements for a tax bill package that would create progressive taxation/capital gains to help fund the 16B state deficit and redirect funds toward climate mitigation and just transition. This tax package will be coming to a vote in 2021 winter legislative session. Spring: New Senate Fracking Bill pending: please click on button for more information |
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