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For Immediate Release: May 13, 2026 Contact: Lisa Thomas, 347-415-6431, lisa@alignny.org; Patrick Nevada, 646-866-9065, patrick@alignny.org  Following the Release of the Mayor’s Executive Budget, 19 Council Members Join 75 Climate & Labor Groups Championing Budget Investments in Green, Healthy Schools With climate cuts at the state and federal level, support grows for Green, Healthy Schools as a solution to the triple crisis of public health, student learning, and workplace safety New York, NY – Today, in a letter released by the Climate Works for All coalition, 19 council members — including the Co-Chairs and Vice Co-Chairs of the Progressive Caucus and the Chairs of the Committees on Children & Youth, Labor, and Environmental Protection — announced their support of Green, Healthy Schools as a FY2027 budget priority.…

Today, Governor Hochul prematurely announced an agreement on the New York State budget. In response, ALIGN Executive Director Theodore Moore released the following statement.

Today, ALIGN: The Alliance for a Greater New York launched ads in defense of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) as New York State budget negotiations continue and the law’s fate remains unclear. Governor Hochul has signaled her interest in further delaying the law’s mandates for greenhouse gas emissions regulations from 2030 to 2040 as well as shifting the way the state calculates emissions. 

Today, Governor Hochul announced the details of her plan to weaken the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) by further delaying greenhouse gas emissions regulations to 2030, extending other climate law targets, and shifting the way the state accounts for climate-heating emissions. In response, ALIGN Climate Director Jenille Scott released the following statement:

Today, workers flooded City Hall to launch the $30 for Our City campaign, a new fight to raise the NYC minimum wage and deliver an urgent solution to our affordability crisis. Union leaders, workers, community groups, and businesses from the Raise Up NY coalition celebrated the introduction of the $30 for Our City Act (Int. 0757) — new legislation from Council Member Sandy Nurse to raise the wage floor for most New York City workers to $30 by 2030. 

Today, the Climate Works for All coalition released a letter to Mayor Mamdani and Speaker Julie Menin with 75+ climate, labor, environmental justice, and student groups representing more than two million New Yorkers calling for a $2.2 billion investment in green public schools in the FY27 Budget. 

In response to Mayor Mamdani’s FY2027 Preliminary Budget, ALIGN released the following statement:

ALIGN’s 2026 Cost-of-Living Action Plan Working class New Yorkers are being pushed out of the state, struggling through unrelenting cost-of-living, health, and climate crises.…

In response to new legislation introduced to increase New York City’s minimum wage, Theodore A. Moore, ALIGN Executive Director and leader of the Raise Up NY coalition issued the following statement

On Cyber Monday and as the holiday shopping season ramps up, Theodore A. Moore, ALIGN Executive Director and leader of the New Yorkers for a Fair Economy coalition released the following statement: