City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York City
‘Solutions are Hyper-Local’: Brooklyn Climate Organizer On Facing the Next Big Storm As Feds Pull Funding
As New York City grapples with extreme weather like last week’s torrential rains, which halted traffic and flooded the subway system, a Trump administration decision from earlier this spring to cut federal funding for natural disaster protection hits hard.
But Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of the grassroots environmental organization UPROSE, says the way forward is to create a neighborhood plan to face severe weather events that grow stronger as climate change worsens.
"So I think that message to our communities has to come through: we are on our own. And what do we do when the government fails us, when it's not available? What do we do for each other? We build community."
‘I Have Real Fears’: Bronx Community Members Blast Proposal to Add More Road to Cross Bronx Expressway
In a letter addressed to the state’s Department of Transportation, Bronx residents called adding a mile-long stretch to the Cross Bronx Expressway a “dangerous and unacceptable” solution to renovating some of its aging infrastructure.
“We don’t have to choose between reliability and affordability on one side, and public health protections on the other. Offshore wind delivers all three, and the time to act is now.”
