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GasFreeNYC statement on final Intro 2317, December 8, 2021

Dec 8, 2021

BIG NEWS: New York City will soon ban gas in new construction! ✅Fights climate change ✅Creates jobs ✅Cuts air pollution With final bill language set, it’s on! This is a win by a movement. “Official” #GasFreeNYC campaign statement below 🚫⛽️🎉

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 8, 2021 Media Contact: Dan Morris, NYCC. 917.952.8920. Chris Dobens, WE ACT, 212.410.1963 Phoebe Galt, Food & Water Watch, 207.400.1275 Megan Ahearn, NYPIRG, 845.988...

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Thank you to our latest co-sponsors

@StevenRaga

@fred_thiele

to end gas in new construction in New York: ✅save money ✅create jobs ✅fight climate change ✅prevent childhood asthma Let’s go

#GasFreeNY

Teamsters JC 16 #PROAct and 9 others

Jessica Ramos

@jessicaramos

10h

🚨Take Action 🚨 Over 200 workers went to Albany yesterday to tell their legislators to #RaiseTheWage. Let’s keep the pressure up. Call your state senator & assembly member today & tell them to sign on to

@joinjoyner

and my #RaiseTheWage Act 📞

DRUM #MayorDefundedOurSchools

11h

Solidarity with Nahar, tenants should never be cut off from their utilities by their landlord

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@DesisRisingUp

11h

That’s a wrap! Shamed on Utpall Roy and all landlords who think they can get away with treating tenants like this! We won’t have it in Richmond Hill or anywhere else! Get organized and plug into the great orgs who showed up for Nahar today!

New York Communities for Change and 9 others

Laborers Local 79

@local79nyc

16h

"Poverty has got to go!" #RaiseUpNY rallied at the NY State Capitol Dunkin Donuts to call for raising the minimum wage + tying it to the true cost of living #RaiseTheWage

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Laborers Local 79

@local79nyc

We joined #RaiseUpNY in Albany to support raising the state minimum wage and indexing it to inflation. Our communities are being left behind as the cost of living continues to rise and we cannot thrive if our friends, families, and neighbors are struggling. #RaiseTheWage!

ALIGN and 9 others

Latoya Joyner

@JoinJoyner

Jessica Ramos and 9 others

Today I joined the Raise Up New York Coalition as we kicked off our campaign to support the Raise the Wage Act. Far too many New Yorkers are struggling to make ends meet. We must help working families regain their purchasing power while strengthening the local economy!

Marcela Mitaynes 瑪切拉米坦斯 and Monique Chandler-Waterman

Always a blast fighting to #RaiseUpNY in Albany! Our members need it, let’s get this done!

Michael Kink

@mkink

Teamsters JC25 and 9 others

“They are destroying the working people’s families, because we have to work two or three jobs to survive. We need to raise the wage to a living wage, now!” — Chris Williamson, Teamsters

@804_local

#RaiseUpNY

Vicky Rivera, our Sunset Park Chapter Chair, on why we need to #RaiseUpNY and how $15 is not enough

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Jessica Ramos and 9 others

Happening now:#RaiseUpNY coalition has taken over Dunkin’ Donuts in NY Capitol building to say $15/hr is not enough, like what Dunkin’ Donuts workers are paid We are calling for

@GovKathyHochul

to raise the min wage to $21.25 and index it to inflation and worker productivity

Comptroller Brad Lander

@NYCComptroller

Banks Face Investor Calls to Cut Fossil-Fuel Financing

Without a concrete plan to reduce emissions in the near term, any net zero plan rings hollow. Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, & Royal Bank of Canada should follow their peers by disclosing absolute, science-based emissions targets for 2030.

bloomberg.com

Six Wall Street banks are being pressed by a group of shareholders to move faster on reducing their financing of fossil fuels to meet global climate goals.

Pete Sikora

@PeteSikora1

It’s amazing that NYCC launched the fight for $15, WON IT… and kept chugging along because $15 is indeed not enough. Truly incredible work.

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Packed bus on the way to Albany because $15/hr is not enough. Corporations have gotten richer while we struggle to pay for rent and food Let’s #RaiseUpNY and increase the min wage to $21.25 and index to inflation and worker productivity

Strong For All and 9 others

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We couldn’t get a full crowd shot because it was so many people!!! A great problem to have 😃😅

We were also joined by other legislators so many we lost track during the event (it was big!!!) thank you to

and others!!! Let’s get a #GasFreeNY

Matt Bremmer, the President of the

@AIA_NewYork

, is repping Architects who do this work. They know this agenda makes practical sense and it’s absolutely necessary to tackle pollution!

Damian from

@nypirg

, a student at BMCC CUNY is explaining how his whole family has asthma. These bills must pass! And they save money, too, by getting us off expensive fossil fuels.

Ellen from

@SierraClub

is closing us out by pointing out that gas free buildings are the way of the future: ✅saves money ✅cuts air pollution ✅fights climate change …and now we’re headed to our lobbying appointments to keep building support for a #GasFreeNY

@JuanArdilaNYC

, newly elected in Western Queens is ready to rock! We need to invest in marginalized communities and decommission the gas infrastructure in a planned, just just manner. He’s already pushing all 3 bills!

@KennyBurgosNY

fires us up pointing out that the Bronx is full of environmental injustices. Extremely high child asthma rates, and we need good jobs! It’s time to pass #GasFreeNY

@JoAnneSimonBK52

is a Brooklyn Assemblymember here to join the push! Let’s go

“We’ve heard a lot of speakers and what is clear is: we need action now!” That’s sums it up from

@WilliamColton8

, a leader in the Assembly!🎯

@LegMJShimsky

newly elected in Westchester is here to represent and push! Let’s go!

Our sisters and brothers at

@weact4ej

bringing the first to the Capital: we need energy efficiency good jobs and equity bill passed!

@walkwithwalker

fires up the crowd and pushes for the bills: climate justice is racial justice! 🎯

Assemblymember

@AlStirpe2022

sparks a chant of “NO MORE TIME” after pointing out we are out of time as a society to tackle climate change.

let’s go!!!

@annakelles

hugging it out after kick ass speech that shows how the oil and gas companies are taking NYers for a ride, financially.

Our member Elaine brings it pointing out the people are paying TOO MUCH for home heating. She wants this agenda passed also to prevent pollution, which has hurt her granddaughter badly.

@PatriciaFahy109

is the prime sponsor of the HEAT act, the second of key legislation we’re pushing. It stops ridiculous subsidies for more fossil fuel infrastructure, which is the last thing we need! Stop digging the hole we’re in, deeper!

Media here for this event, and we’re going to lobby all over 150+ legislators after this event!

@EmilyAssembly

is the prime assembly sponsor of #GasFreeNY bill to end gas in new construction. She’s pointing out that ridiculous right wing culture war has started because blue states must and are MOVING to end fossil fuels in new buildings. That also saves money. Let’s go!

@BrianKavanaghNY

Housing Committee moved the bill this morning. He’s the senate prime sponsor! The Governor and senate are committed now it’s time for the Assembly to join this fight to save money and save lives!

@DeborahJGlick

, chairing the key Assembly Environmental committee that will guide the climate fight, fires us up!

It’s a large, raucous event and

@PeteforNy

leads off the call to go NOW

starts big rally with 200+ people and over 20 state legislators to win #GasFreeNY. Let’s go: ✅save money ✅create jobs ✅fight climate change ✅prevent childhood asthma Hochul and Senare support and it’s time for

AIA New York (AIANY) and 7 others

to join!

Center for Community Alternatives

@CCA_NY

Communities Not Cages and 9 others

RIGHT NOW: Hundreds of us are gathered in Albany to demand passage of the Eliminate Mandatory Minimums, Second Look Act and Earned Time Act. We need #CommunitiesNotCages.

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Monica Klein

@MonicaCKlein

Luxury boom shows the staying power of the ultra-rich

Still think the rich are leaving? "Within America, it was New York that doubled down on its status as the luxury capital of the world."

ft.com

Many of our expectations about the spending patterns of the wealthy are being confounded

Jeff Coltin

@JCColtin

Another shot fired (or, not fired) by

@NYChange

in the gas stove war, criticizing Adams.

Emily Gallagher

@EmilyAssembly

1. We already have this as NYC law, does the mayor know? 2. Eric Ripert, the 3-star michelin chef at Le Bernadin, prefers induction. I’d say he’s a pretty good cook!

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Morgan McKay

@morganfmckay

.@NYCMayor is asked about @GovKathyHochul proposal to ban gas stoves “Those of us who are good cooks…people don't realize electric stoves can't give you the right setting,” Adams says. “The electric stove doesn’t cook for me.”

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