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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 23d

NEW from @politico.com: @delgadoforny.bsky.social has called on NYPA and @governor.ny.gov to build 15 GW of public renewables by 2030!

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 26d

Folks, we are so close to a very important comment milestone, but they close very soon. If you live in New York State, take 15 seconds to send a comment for 15 GW ASAP! ⚡️

publicpowerny.org/take-action/

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 26d

In 2023, we won the Build Public Renewables Act — a groundbreaking law empowering NYS to speed up the clean energy transition and lower your bills with publicly-owned power.

Today is the deadline to tell the New York Power Authority that we need a plan for 15 GW by 2030. Take urgent action below.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 26d

Take action : NYC-DSA Ecosocialists

Take action by demanding Governor Hochul direct the New York Power Authority to build 15 gigawatts of public renewables by 2030.

ecosocialists.nyc

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 26d

In 2023, we won the Build Public Renewables Act — a groundbreaking law empowering NYS to speed up the clean energy transition and lower your bills with publicly-owned power.

Today is the deadline to tell the New York Power Authority that we need a plan for 15 GW by 2030. Take urgent action below.

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 26d

You can be a part of the sequel if you send a comment right now! publicpowerny.org/take-action/

Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 26d

I was interviewed for this book, which is finally coming out! I’ve read the chapter in which I am quoted/sourced and I think it is an interesting study of the public power campaign’s origins and how nyc-dsa played a hitherto infilled role in the climate movement.

nyupress.org/978147983781...

Organize or Burn

A successful political playbook for fighting climate change and expanding democracy from the New York socialist movement Climate inaction is already causing...

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 26d

New Yorkers need to leave digital public comments demanding 15 Gigawatts (GW) of public renewables by 2030. It takes 15 seconds to do with this tool: publicpowerny.org/take-action. THE DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 12, ALL COMMENTS NEED TO BE IN BY TODAY!!

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 26d

🫡 You heard her, get your comment in today before it's too late!

Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 26d

New Yorkers need to leave digital public comments demanding 15 Gigawatts (GW) of public renewables by 2030. It takes 15 seconds to do with this tool: publicpowerny.org/take-action. THE DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 12, ALL COMMENTS NEED TO BE IN BY TODAY!!

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 26d

In the fight for Public Power, there are few greater champions than Assemblymember @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

First, let him remind you of why New York *will* lead our future.

And second... take 30 seconds to do it before tonight! publicpowerny.org/take-action

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 26d

In 2023, we won the Build Public Renewables Act — a groundbreaking law empowering NYS to speed up the clean energy transition and lower your bills with publicly-owned power.

Today is the deadline to tell the New York Power Authority that we need a plan for 15 GW by 2030. Take urgent action below.

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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 27d

when I started doing climate organizing in 2017, the main enemies were:

Donald Trump
Andrew Cuomo
The Williams Pipeline

so uh, hell fucking no. please send a comment if your in NY ➡️ publicpowerny.org/take-action

Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 27d

Kathy Hochul is trying to help Donald Trump revive the most hated energy project in New York.

Learn just why it's so bad, and then send a comment and publicpowerny.org/take-action to make sure we lead on protecting our climate instead! 🧵

Headline: Why We Need To Stop The Williams Pipeline over images of Kathy Hochul and Donald Trump

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 27d

We've already made her double her public renewables plan from 3.5 GW to 7. But now, we have to take it home.

New York *will* lead the future, no matter who stands in our way.

Send a public comment demanding 15 GW before comments close on Friday night:

publicpowerny.org/take-action

Image of Zohran Mamdani speaking at a rally for 15 gigawatts of public renwebles

New York will lead our future. Our governor just has to keep up with the rest of us.

Send a public comment demanding 15 gigawatts of public renewables today:

publicpower.org/take-action

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 27d

There's a much more popular choice Hochul *could* make. Built 15 gigawatts of public renewables, instead of Trump's private pipelines.

But it will only happen if we make her.

Instead of helping Trump poison New Yorkers, Kathy Hochul could build 15 gigawatts of publicly owned renewable energy to lower our bills today, and protect our air, water, and planet tomorrow.

But it’s up to us to make it happen.

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 27d

But this year, Kathy Hochul reportedly made a closed door agreement with Donald Trump to bring the Williams Pipeline back, and fast track it for approval.

It could happen any day now.

Photo of Kathy Hochul and Donald Trump shaking hands in front of Michael Bloomberg

But now, Kathy Hochul is doing Trump’s dirty work to bring it back from the dead again.

After a closed door meeting, Hochul announced that the Williams Pipeline is once again up for approval.

Headline: Major Pipeline Moves Closer to Approval in New York as Critics Decry 'Bargain' with Trump

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 27d

That's why New Yorkers fought to stop it, and won not just once, or even twice, but *three times*.

A movement of thousands of New Yorkers stretching from the Far Rockaways to the Finger Lakes has stopped the Williams Pipeline three times already:

2018
2019
2020

Screenshot of article in City Limits: Third Strike for Williams Pipeline

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 27d

Three simple reasons: the damage it woudl do to our world, our water, and our wallets.

Map of the proposed pipeline route through New York

Did You Know? Methane has a global warming potential 28x more than carbon dioxide.

Pipelines are notoriously leaky, and the Williams Pipeline is no exception. If built, leaked methane would contaminate our drinking water while adding more fossil fuel emissions.

It would also make us pay for the privilege, raising National Grid customers’ bills by nearly $100/year to fund construction.

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 27d

The Williams Pipeline was introduced in 2017. New Yorkers have fought it, and won. Why?

$First proposed in 2017, the 37-mile Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) Pipeline would carry fracked gas underwater through the New York Harbor. It may be the most hated energy project in New York history.$

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 27d

Kathy Hochul is trying to help Donald Trump revive the most hated energy project in New York.

Learn just why it's so bad, and then send a comment and publicpowerny.org/take-action to make sure we lead on protecting our climate instead! 🧵

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Clean Air Coalition of WNY @cacwny.org · 27d

Send a comment to NYPA urging a 15 GW renewable energy build goal before the deadline on Friday (end of day TOMORROW!) publicpowerny.org/take-action/

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 27d

On climate, @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social writes that Hochul and Trump "appear to be BFFs." New Yorkers deserve better.

Hochul, by contrast, approved the Iroquois pipeline earlier this year and seems to be kowtowing to Trump by expediting approval for the wildly unpopular Williams and Constitution pipelines. The Williams pipeline was rejected by the state's Department of Conservation three times under Andrew Cuomo (himself no wild-eyed opponent of Trump, as we have recently seen).

It's not the first time Hochul has flip-flopped on this issue. She has fought hard against the Build Public Renewables Act, a landmark piece of climate legislation designed to create and expand publicly owned renewable energy projects in New York. At first she tried to simply defeat it, then she tried to water it down and politically weaken it by cutting out the labor and
environmental justice provisions. When none of that worked, she appointed a Republican to head the relevant agency, Justin Driscoll, who has testified that the public ownership requirement should be stripped - from the Build Public Renewables Act.

While New Yorkers are struggling to afford necessary energy for their daily lives, and we as a polity are trying to create renewable, clean alternatives to fossil fuels, the last thing we should prioritize are these job-killing, water-wasting, and extremely energy-intensive instruments of human alienation.
Hochul's energy policy isn't just bad by normal climate metrics. Not only does she resist policy reforms that will lower emissions, she resists energy affordability itself. Her own agency has presided over punishing rate hikes, while refusing to be a true partner in the cause of public power, the only way to truly guarantee energy in the public interest.

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 28d

Hey @governor.ny.gov, we fixed your campaign ad for you. Time to fix the state's energy plan and build 15 GW of public renewables!

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 28d

There are only TWO DAYS LEFT to make a public comment demanding that New York build 15 GW of public renewables! Do it now: publicpowerny.org/take-action/

Take Action — Public Power NY

Events More coming soon

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 28d

Governor Hochul didn't want to hold an in-person hearing on
NYPA's renewable energy plan. So we held one ourselves.

New Yorkers are speaking loud and clear: We must build public renewables at the speed and scale that the climate crisis requires.

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 28d

Hey @governor.ny.gov, we fixed your campaign ad for you. Time to fix the state's energy plan and build 15 GW of public renewables!

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · Sep 7

If they're too scared to hold in-person hearings, we'll hold one for them.

On Tuesday, Sept 9 join us for a People's Hearing For Public Renewables in NYC, with top organizers, elected officials, and labor unions. New York *will* lead our future.

🔜 actionnetwork.org/events/peopl...

Red event poster with headline:

A People’s Hearing for Public Renewables

Senator Jabari Brisport
Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes
Jamaal Bowman
Sumaya Awad
UAW 9A
UFT
PSC-CUNY
& more!

Tuesday, September 9, 2025 at 6:30pm
First Unitarian Church, 119 Pierpont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · Sep 4

Don't blame us, we voted for Kodos

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Sep 4

Here's the great @cassiewillson.bsky.social with another way Hochul's dropping the ball and something you can do about it: bsky.app/profile/cass...

cassie willson @cassiewillson.bsky.social · Sep 4

NYers go tell Kathy to protect our future! publicpowerny.org/take-action/

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