Urgent: Ban new gas plants & end nuclear subsidies!

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The Power Generation Advisory Panel of the Climate Action Council is still considering allowing more gas plants to be built for the next five years. The Panel is also being intensively lobbied by individuals promoting nuclear energy.

We have one last chance to push their decision in the right direction: the final Power Generation Advisory Panel meeting on Wednesday April 7. Let’s show them that New Yorkers are united in rejecting fossil fuels and nuclear energy in New York’s energy future.

Please send an email to the Power Generation Panel, asking them to recommend a ban on new gas plants and an end to nuclear subsidies. Send emails to [email protected] by 12pm on April 7, 2021.

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Background:

The Climate Action Council is in charge of developing a scoping plan to achieve the legal mandate in the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) to achieve 40% greenhouse gas reductions by 2030 and 85% by 2050. The CLCPA also requires New York to reach 70% renewable energy generation by 2030. Yet, New York still only gets around 27% of our energy from wind, solar, and hydroelectricity, while we are forced to shell out billions to subsidize nuclear plants ([link removed]) . Meanwhile, fossil fuel companies are still trying to build new fracked gas plants that we don’t even need, like NRG’s proposed gas plant ([link removed]) in Queens and Danskammer’s proposed gas plant ([link removed]) in Newburgh, NY. Everything we know about climate science and the CLCPA tells us we need to ban all new gas infrastructure and gas plants now.

It is imperative that our state begin an aggressive and visionary transition to a carbon-free and nuclear-free energy supply and a sustainable future that will preserve human health and the environment for ourselves and future generations. 100% renewable energy — including solar and wind — combined with energy efficiency, energy storage, and demand management is the safest and cleanest path forward to avert potential climate and environmental disasters and to protect our water, health, and safety. The transition to 100% renewables is possible and necessary and is only hindered by a lack of political will on behalf of our decision makers and the for-profit corporations that control our energy system today.

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