Governor Hochul,
please make a massive investment in better buildings!
On October 20, 2021 over two hundred organizations from across New York sent a letter to New York Governor Kathy Hochul urging her to make a massive investment in better buildings in New York, starting in disadvantaged urban and rural communities, where buildings are the least efficient and costs are highest. The letter is signed by environmental justice, health, housing, and clean energy organizations.
The letter calls for:
- At least 2 million energy-efficient all-electric homes by 2030, at least half of which will be new and existing affordable housing in and for Disadvantaged Communities
- A Green Affordable Housing Fund for Disadvantaged Communities
- Building codes and utility regulation to support an end to fossil fuel expansion
- Thousands of high quality, high-paying career jobs, with priority for disadvantaged communities and priority populations

Take Action
Organizational Sign On
We invite organizations to join us in urging Governor Hochul to commit to equitable building electrification.
Sign the Petition
Join the thousands of individuals who support the building electrification equity platform.
Organizations that have signed the letter
AAUW Kingston NY
ABC Earth Care Team
Acadia Center
Adirondack North Country Association
Air Source LLC
All Our Energy
Alliance for a Green Economy
Alliance for Clean Energy NY
Alternative Carbon Energy Systems, Inc.
Anthony’s Heating and Contracting LLC
Association for Energy Affordability
Aztech Geothermal, LLC
Bedford 2030
Big Reuse
Brian R Duggan, JD, PG Environmental Professional
Bright Energy Services
Bronx Climate Justice North
Bronx Jews for Climate Action
Brooklyn For Peace
Broome Tioga Green Party
Buffalo Geothermal LLC
Building Decarbonization Coalition
Building Performance Contractors Association of NY
Campaign for Renewable Energy
Catskill Mountainkeeper
Church Women United in New York State
Citizen Action of New York
Citizens For Local Power INC
Citizens’ Environmental Coalition
Climate Action Campaign
Climate Change Awareness & Action
Climate Justice Cornell
Climate Reality Finger Lakes Greater Region NY Chapter
Climate Reality Project – Chautauqua County NY
Climate Reality Project – NYC Metro Chapter
Climate Reality Project – Peconic Region
Climate Reality Project – Westchester Chapter
Climate Reality Project – Western New York Chapter
Climate Smart Kingston Commission
Climate Smart Philipstown
Climate Solutions Accelerator of the Genesee-Finger Lakes Region
ClimateMama
ClimateMaster, Inc.
CNY Poor People’s Campaign
CNY Solidarity Coalition
Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board (CNYRPDB)
Centsible House, Inc
Coalition Against the Rockaway Pipeline
Coalition to Protect New York
Color Henrietta Green
Color Brighton Green
Community Advocates for a Sustainable Environment
Community Preservation Corporation
Compressor Free Franklin
Concerned Citizens of Lansing
Concerned Health Professionals of New York
Connected Communities
Crown Heights Jewish Community Council
Dailey Electric, Inc.
Dandelion Energy
Drawdown NYC
Dryden Resource Awareness Coalition
E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs)
Earthjustice
EarthKind Energy Consulting
Ecosave
Effervescence
Ellenville NAACP
Elmirans and Friends Against Fracking
Energy Catalyst Technologies
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc
Environmental Action Coalition
Environmental Advocates NY
Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental Justice Task Force of the Western NY Peace Center
Episcopal Diocese of Central New York
Erie County Green Party
Finger Lakes ReUse, Inc.
Food and Water Watch
For the Many
Fossil Free Tompkins
Frack Action
FrackBustersNY
Future of Small Cities Institute
Gas Free Seneca
GBC Sustainability Team
GEM Energy
Get Your GreenBack Tompkins
Grassroots Environmental Education
Greater Syracuse Tenants Network
Green and Healthy Homes Initiative
Green Education and Legal Fund
Green Home Logic, Inc.
Green Ossining
Green Party of Nassau County
Green Party of Onondaga County
Green Team LI
Greenfaith LI
GreeningUSA
HabitatMap
Halcyon Inc.
Healing and Protecting Our Land Together – A Call to Prayer
Heat/Cool Smart Brooklyn
HeatSmart CNY
HIGHMARK Building Efficiency
Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc.
Hudson Valley & Catskills Climate Reality Chapter
Hudson Valley Green Party
Indivisible Harlem
Integral Building + Design
Interfaith Climate Justice Community
Interfaith Climate Justice Community of WNY
Jewish Climate Action Network NYC
Kinetic Communities Consulting
LaMorte Electric Heating and Cooling
Long Island Activists
Long Island Progressive Coalition
Margert Community Corporation
Mothers Out Front – Long Island
Mothers Out Front (Adirondacks)
Mothers Out Front Chemung County
Mothers Out Front Dutchess County
Mothers Out Front New York
Mothers Out Front – Northern Westchester Chapter
Mothers Out Front Westchester Rivertowns
Mothers Out Front- Tompkins
NAACP Mid Manhattan Branch
Nassau Hiking & Outdoor Club
Network for a Sustainable Tomorrow
New Paltz Climate Action Coalition
New Paltz Climate Smart
New Paltz Interfaith Earth Action
New York City Environmental Justice Alliance
New York Climate Action Group
New York Community Energy Cooperative
New York Geothermal Foundation
New York League of Conservation Voters
New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG)
New York State Nurses Association
New York State Public Health Association
New York Youth Climate Leaders
New Yorkers for Clean Power
North American Climate, Conservation and Environment (NACCE)
North Bronx Racial Justice
North Country Earth Action
Northern Westchester Mothers Out Front
NP Environmental, LLC
NRDC
NYC For Youth Inc.
NY Climate Advocacy Project
NY Energy Democracy Alliance
NY-GEO New York Geothermal Energy Organization
NYC 2030 District
NYPAN Greene
Orange R.A.P.P. (Residents Against Pilgrim Pipelines)
Partnership for Policy Integrity
Partnership for the Public Good
PathStone Corporation
PAUSE (People of Albany United for Safe Energy)
Peace & Justice Committee
Peace Action New York State
People for a Healthy Environment
Peoples Climate Movement – NY
Plymouth Friends of Clean Water
Possible Rochester | Possible Planet
Progressive Schenectady
Progressive Women of NY
Protecting Our Waters
PUSH Buffalo
Putnam Progressives
Ratepayer and Community Intervenors
Regional Plan Association
Renewable Energy Long Island
Renewable Heat Now
Residents Allied for the Future of Tioga (RAFT)
Resist Spectra
Riverkeeper
Rochester Area Interfaith Climate Action (RAICA)
Rockland Goes Green
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)
Roctricity LLC
RUPCO
Rural Housing Opportunities Corp.
Safe Energy Rights Group
Sane Energy Project
Sanford-Oquaga Area Concerned Citizens (S-OACC)
Seneca Lake Guardian
Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter
Sierra Club Niagara Group
Sisters of Charity Federation
Sisters of St. Dominic of Blauvelt, New York
Sixth Street Community Center
Snug Planet
Solar Tompkins
Solarize Albany
Sol Center
Solstice Initiative
South Asian Fund for Education Scholarship and Training
South Shore Audubon Society
Southern Door Community Land Trust, Inc.
Southern Tier Interfaith Coalition
Stop NY Fracked Gas Pipeline
Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion
StopCricketValley.org
Sullivan Alliance for Sustainable Development
SunCommon
Sunrise Ithaca
Sunrise NYC
Sunrise Rochester
Susquehanna Group of Sierra Club
Sustainable Hudson Valley
Sustainable Putnam Inc.
Sustainable Tompkins, Inc.
Sustainable Warwick
Sustainable Westchester Inc.
Syracuse Cultural Workers
Syracuse Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
Syracuse Peace Council
TAP Inc
The Community Preservation Corporation
The Insulation Man, LLC
The Reve
Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative
Tompkins County Progressives
Transition Town Port Washington
Ulster Activists
United for Action
United for Clean Energy
Universal Human Rights Defenders Coalition
Urban Jobs Task Force
Urbecon LLC
UU Congregation of Binghamton, Green Sanctuary
Village of New Paltz
Vote Solar
WASS (Westchester Alliance for Sustainable Solutions)
WE ACT for Environmental Justice
WESPAC Foundation, Inc.
West Harlem progressive Democratic Club
Westchester for Change
Western New York Environmental Alliance
Western NY Drilling Defense
Wise Home Energy
Workers Center of Central New York
350Brooklyn
350NYC