Today is the last day of the legislative session, and the Renewable Heat Now team is fighting for the NY HEAT Act. We made historic progress this year by passing the All-Electric Building Act, and we won’t stop there. The climate crisis is too urgent to allow outdated laws to force us to continue subsidizing new fossil fuel infrastructure for even one more year.

Call Assembly Speaker Heastie using the quick and easy tool at bit.ly/NYHEAT and urge him to pass the NY HEAT Act now!

Yesterday, AGREE’s Deputy Director Avni Pravin spoke at a press conference outside Speaker Carl Heastie’s office in NYC, which was enveloped in smoke. She was quoted in CNN, discussing the respiratory difficulties she felt, and saying “There were lots of folks who were walking from construction jobs and just day-to-day activities that they can’t avoid. I just was really having this moment of feeling extremely fed up with legislators that don’t want to take action.”

Speaker Carl Heastie’s own district in the Bronx is disproportionately impacted by climate change and asthma, yet he constantly blocks meaningful climate legislation. It’s time for us to remind him that the lives of his constituents, and all of our futures, are in his hands.

The NY HEAT Act has over 65 co-sponsors in the Assembly, AND has already passed in the Senate. Let’s keep the momentum going. Let’s do one final push to let Assembly Speaker Heastie know the NY HEAT Act can't wait!