For Immediate Release: June 18, 2025
Media Contact: Lisa Thomas, lisa@alignny.org, (347) 415-6431
New York’s Legislative Session Ends With a Whimper
ALBANY, NY – As New York’s 2025 legislative session came to a close, Theodore A. Moore, ALIGN Executive Director, released the following statement:
“When workers and climate are under attack, New York must stand up and fight back. Instead, our legislative leaders ended the session with a whimper.
The chambers failed to move the TEMP Act, turning their backs on 2 million workers enduring stifling heat on the job as our planet warms. The Senate passed the 21st Century Antitrust Act for the fifth consecutive year, and for the fifth year it died in the Assembly, leaving one of New York’s best solutions for the affordability crisis in the dust. The only climate victory was the elimination of the 100-foot rule, so that New Yorkers will no longer foot the bill to expand polluting fossil fuel infrastructure — a good step to be sure, but a fragment of the original NY HEAT legislation.
There is no excuse for business as usual and inch by inch reforms while the White House slashes worker protections and denies our hastening climate crisis. We need policymakers to aggressively transition New York off of fossil fuels and create the green jobs of the future, not delay the session for weeks and then pack it up on time. We’ll keep fighting for dignity and justice for all New Yorkers, but we demand better from our elected leaders,” said Theodore A. Moore, ALIGN Executive Director.
About ALIGN
ALIGN (The Alliance for a Greater New York) brings together labor, climate, and community organizations for a more just, sustainable New York. Working at the intersection of economic and climate justice, ALIGN builds coalitions with those most impacted and uplifts worker and community voices to fight for dignity in the workplace and a just path to a renewable energy economy for all. Read more about ALIGN’s 2025 Agenda for a Green, Affordable NY.