Governor Hochul,
let’s advance your affordable climate-friendly homes agenda!

On October 23, 2024, over 240 organizations from across New York sent a letter to New York Governor Kathy Hochul urging her to address the rising cost of energy driven by irresponsible fossil fuel investments and the inadequacy of funding for New York’s
clean energy programs.  

The letter specifically calls on the Governor to:

• Enable an affordable gas transition through inclusion of  the full NY HEAT Act in her upcoming SFY2025-26 Executive Budget proposal.
• Fund retrofit readiness with a $200 million program in the state budget to remediate older houses and apartments of low- and moderate-income New Yorkers, readying them for weatherization and electrification.
• Require gas utilities to do their part to address the climate crisis by requiring the Department of Environmental Conservation and Department of Public Service to comply with the requirements of the CLCPA to set and enforce specific emissions reduction targets for gas utilities and the buildings sector. 
• Fund innovative state projects to lead by example through thermal energy networks at the Empire State Plaza and 14 of the highest-emitting state-owned campuses and facilities identified in NYPA’s decarbonization action plans, and to implement this on an ambitious timeline