Today, New York City finds itself at a place of great promise and great peril. The City’s enormous energy needs and reliance on fossil fuels are rising as we continue to grow and welcome new residents. Although New York City can achieve much on its own, State action is needed on several fronts if the city is to build a new energy, high performance economy. This report calls on New York State to help us realize this vision by spearheading ten new initiatives.
In July 2005, The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law released a practical guide to developing a strategy for creating and keeping high-quality construction jobs for local residents.…
The city’s energy demand is so great it necessarily begs for the implementation of policies that promote energy efficiencies. This leads us to revisit the topic of distributed generation or distributed energy—a topic obscured by decades of large megawatt power plant generation and distribution.
We applaud Intro. No. 395 and the steps it takes to codify into law a comprehensive
environmental sustainability action plan for New York City. This Intro., if enacted, promises to bring together all the practical policy elements necessary to assure that our future economic development is environmentally safe, sustainable, and helps wean the country away from reliance on fossil fuels.
