Here’s What Governor Cuomo Could Do Today to Really Tackle Climate Change
New York needs to transition its electric grid off fossil fuels. That means Cuomo must create a schedule to shut down polluting power plants—and stop approving new ones.
Pete Sikora · November 21, 2020

Astoria Generating Station, on the East River waterfront in northwest Queens. | Wikimedia Commons
Pete Sikora is the Climate & Inequality Campaigns Director at New York Communities for Change.
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