Governor Hochul,
let’s advance your affordable climate-friendly homes agenda!
On October 16, 2023, over two hundred 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 to lead New York toward a more affordable energy future. The letter asks for the Governor’s leadership to implement New York’s nation-leading Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), protect New Yorkers from unnecessary energy costs, and ensure safe, comfortable homes year-round.
The letter specifically calls on the Governor to:
- Put money back in New Yorkers’ pockets by ending wasteful spending of customer funds used to subsidize new fracked gas hookups by finally eliminating the ‘100-foot rule’
- Improve access to cost-saving energy efficiency measures and heat pumps by directing your agencies to create a retrofit readiness fund to fully achieve your Climate Friendly Homes commitment
- Enable utilities to opt for cleaner, more cost-effective options rather than unnecessary gas pipelines by amending the obligation to serve gas so that utilities can pursue neighborhood-scale building decarbonization projects
- Make energy bills affordable and fair for low and middle-income New Yorkers by ensuring no residential customer pays more than 6% of their income for energy
- Hold gas utilities accountable for reducing climate and air pollution by directing your agencies to set and enforce CLCPA-compliant building sector emission limits
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
Alliance for a Green Economy
Natural Resources Defense Council
New York League of Conservation Voters
WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Building Decarbonization Coalition
ALIGN: The Alliance for a Greater New York
Association for Energy Affordability
Building Performance Contractors Association of NYS Inc.
Climate Solutions Accelerator of the Genesee-Finger Lakes Region
Environmental Advocates NY
NY Renews Coalition
Regional Plan Association
Concerned Health Professionals of New York
Earthjustice
Environmental Defense Fund
Food & Water Watch
Long Island Progressive Coalition
NYC Environmental Justice Alliance
Citizen Action of New York
Urban Green Council
True Building Performance
Wise Home Energy
Aztech Geothermal, LLC
350Brooklyn
350NYC
American Association of University Women- Kingston
All Our Energy
Alternative Carbon Energy Systems Inc
Beacon Climate Action Now
Bedford 2030
Bethlehem Morning Voice Huddle
Big Reuse
Bronx Climate Justice North
Bronx Jews for Climate Action
Brooklyn for Peace
Buffalo Energy, Inc.
Buffalo Geothermal LLC
Citizens’ Climate Lobby- Staten Island
Citizens’ Climate Lobby- Westchester
ClimateMama
Climate Master, Inc.
CNY Solidarity Coalition
Coalition Against the Rockaway Pipeline
Coalition for Outreach, Policy & Coordination
Coalition for Wetlands and Forests
Coalition to Protect New York
Color Penfield Green
Color Rush Henrietta Green
Committee to Preserve the Finger Lakes
Communities for Local Power
Community Advocates for a Sustainable Environment
Congregation Tikkun V’Or, CJ Council
Ecosave
Elmirans and Friends Against Fracking
Energy Allies
Energy Catalyst Technologies
Extinction Rebellion Mid-Hudson
Finger Lakes Climate Fund
Fossil Free Tompkins
FrackBusters NY
Grassroots Environmental Educaiton
Greater Syracuse Tenants Network
Green Choices Consulting
Green Ossining
Green Party of Onondaga County
Green Team LI
Greening USA
HabitatMap
Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition
Indivisible Brooklyn
Indivisible Harlem
Indivisible Mohawk Valley- Climate Crisis Working Group
Indivisible New Rochelle
Indivisible Scarsdale
Inwood Indivisible
Kinetic Communities
Renewable Energy Long Island
Residents Allied for the Future of Tioga
Rise and Resist
Rivers & Mountains GreenFaith
Riverside Salem UCC/DoC
RocACTS Climate Justice Task Force
Rochester Area Interfaith Climate Action
Rockaway Women for Progress
Roctricity LLC
RPI Sunrise Movement
Safe Energy Rights Movement
Salas O’Brien
Sanfilippo Solutions Inc.
Seneca Lake Guardian
Sisters of St. Dominic of Blauvelt, NY
Sixth Street Community Center
Solarize Albany
South Asian Fund for Education Scholarship and Training
South Shore Audubon Society
Start:Empowerment
Staten Island Urban Center
Stop NY Fracked Gas Pipeline
Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion
Students for Climate Action
Sullivan Alliance for Sustainable Development
Sunrise Movement NYC
SUNY New Paltz Environmental Task Force
Supporters of Horseshoe Solar
Sustainable Fingers Lakes
Sustainable Putnam
Sustainable Saratoga
Sustainable Warwick
Sustainable Westchester
Syracuse Cultural Workers
Syracuse Peace Council
Syracuse United Neighbors
Taitem Engineering
New York Geothermal Energy Organization
NYPIRG
Renewable Heat Now
Rewiring America
Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter
Vote Solar
Adirondack Voters for Change
E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs
Dandelion Energy
Frack Action
For the Many
Mothers Out Front
New York State Public Health Association
New Yorkers for Clean Power
New York Sustainable Business Council
Partnership for the Public Good
South Bronx Unite
SunCommon
TREEAge
HIGHMARK | Building Efficiency
Halco
Energy Catalyst Technologies
El Puente
Sane Energy Project
Jewish Climate Action Network NYC
Justice Ministries Committee, Presbytery of NYC
Urban Homesteading Assistance Board
Church Women United in New York State
Campaign for Renewable Energy
Climate Change Awareness and Action
Climate Change Resources, Inc.
Climate Control Group
Climate Families NYC
Climate Justice Cornell
Citizens’ Climate Lobby of New York State
Citizens’ Climate Lobby- Brooklyn
Citizens’ Climate Lobby- Mid Hudson
Citizens’ Climate Lobby- New York City
Citizens’ Climate Lobby- Rochester
Long Island Activists
LaMorte Electric Heating and Cooling
Melissa Carlson, Architect
Metro Justice
Mothers Out Front- Tompkins
Mothers Out Front- Dutchess County
Mothers Out Front- Westchester Rivertowns
Nassau Hiking & Outdoor Club
Network for a Sustainable Tomorrow
New York Climate Action Group
New York Climate Advocacy Project
New York Interfaith Power & Light
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
New York Progressive Action Network
New York Youth Climate Leaders
No North Brooklyn Pipeline
North American Climate, Conservation, and Environment
North Bronx Racial Justice
North Country NYPAN
Northwest Bronx Indivisible
NP Environmental, LLC
NYC 2030 District
NYCD16 Indivisible
NY Energy Democracy Alliance
NYPAN of the Southern Fingers Lakes
Outdoor Promise
Pace Energy and Climate Center
Pachamama Alliance of the Rochester Area
PathStone Corporation
Peace Action Bay Ridge
Peace Action New York State
Peekskill Progressives
People for a Healthy Environment
Peoples Climate Movement- NY
Plant Native NW Bronx
Possible Rochester
Progressive Schenectady
Putnam Progressives
Queens Climate Project
Ratepayer and Community Intervenors
The Climate Reality Project, Capital Region Chapter
The Climate Reality Project, Finger Lakes Greater Region Chapter
The Climate Reality Project, Hudson Valley & Catskills Chapter
The Climate Reality Project, Long Island Chapter
The Climate Reality Project, NYC Chapter
The Climate Reality Project, Westchester County
The Climate Reality Project, Western New York Chapter
The Insulation Man, LLC
The Park Church in Elmira
Third Act Upstate New York
Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative
Tompkins County Progressives
Transition Town Port Washington
United for Action
United for Clean Energy
Urban Jobs Task Force of Syracuse
Urbecon LLC
UU Congregation of Binghamton, Green Sanctuary
WESPAC Foundation
Westchester Alliance for Sustainable Solutions
Westchester for Change
Western New York Environmental Alliance
Win Climate
WNY Drilling Defense
WNY Youth Climate Council
Yorktown 100