POSTPONED: Leading Cmty, Labor, Enviro, and Biz Orgs to Lay Out Priorities for Cap & Invest Program in NYS

If Done Right, Cap and Invest Would Save Every Working New Yorker Hundreds of Dollars Each Year While Funding Clean Energy Job Creation to Slash Pollution & Meet Climate Goals

NEW YORK, NY (05/18/2023) (readMedia)-- THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. After a bruising NYS budget fight that included key environmental victories, but fell short of preparing NYS to fully meet its greenhouse gas emission reduction goals, a broad set of community, labor, environmental, and business organizations will lay out priorities to secure a nation-leading Cap-and-Invest program.

A successful Cap & Invest program is a game-changing opportunity that will put money in working New Yorker's pockets, while creating good, union jobs, ensure environmental justice for New York communities, and slash climate-heating pollution.

Large-scale regulatory action on the issue - which will affect all New Yorkers' energy use - is expected to commence in June.

WHO:

Ben Furnas, Former Director, NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate & Sustainability

Brett Thomason, Political Director, Steamfitters Local 638

Rich Schrader, New York Policy Director, NRDC

Daphany Rose Sanchez, Kinetic Communities

New York Communities for Change

Patrick McClellan, New York League of Conservation Voters

Betamia Coronel, Senior Climate Justice Organizer, Center for Popular Democracy

Dale Bryk, Regional Plan Association

Blair Horner, Executive Director, NYPIRG

Bob Cohen, Citizen Action of New York

Adam Sciabor, Urban Green Council

Shay O’Reilly, Sierra Club

Michael Hernández, Rewiring America

Evergreen Action

350Brooklyn

350NYC

New York Civic Engagement Table

Stand.Earth
WHAT:

 A broad set of community, labor, environmental, and business organizations will lay out priorities to secure a nation-leading Cap-and-Invest program.
WHEN: Friday May 19, 2023 at 11:00AM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
WHERE: POSTPONED
New York
NOTES:

 This event is postponed.