green and healthy schools<\/a> to address decades of divestment and deterioration<\/p>\nFight fossil fuel infrastructure, including the Williams NESE pipeline and Gowanus fracked gas power plant<\/p>\n
Activists pointed out that a lack of sustainable climate infrastructure is an affordability issue. Mamdani\u2019s climate pledges would improve public health, reduce air pollution, create thousands of new green jobs, and help New Yorkers save on energy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMayor Mamdani promised to create a city that is affordable, livable, and safe. A plan to address emissions and skyrocketing energy bills goes hand-in-hand with Mamdani\u2019s affordability agenda. The longer Mayor Mamdani waits to deliver on his promises to fight fossil fuel infrastructure, invest in green, healthy schools, and clean up emissions from buildings, the more New Yorkers will pay the price with steeper energy costs, more air pollution, and thousands of lost jobs. The time to act is now, and that\u2019s why we\u2019re rallying to tell Mayor Mamdani: Keep your climate commitments,\u201d said Graham Gale, organizer at Food & Water Watch.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur schools are falling apart and our kids are falling behind,\u201d said Jenille Scott, ALIGN Climate Director. \u201cEvery day that NYC students are exposed to poisonous toxins, poor air quality, and uncomfortable temperatures in the classroom means lower test scores, higher absences, and a growing education and health crisis. Green, Healthy Schools connect so many of this administration\u2019s priorities \u2014 child care, safe work, and fixing what\u2019s broken in our day-to-day \u2014 and it\u2019s time for the Mayor to take action to protect our city\u2019s greatest public resource, our schools.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cCandidate Mamdani promised a break from the status quo to meet our spiraling climate and affordability crises head on. Ten months into his administration, it\u2019s past time for Mayor Mamdani to step forward to stop fossil fuel infrastructure buildouts spurred on by AI and data center speculation; to publicly oppose proposed fracked gas power plants within city limits; to fulfill his campaign promise to close the crippling administrative loophole his predecessor ripped into NYC\u2019s primary climate law, Local Law 97; and to green our antiquated, overheated, polluting and toxic public schools. The work we committed to in collectively electing Zohran was never intended to be a vanity project. As deaths mount and our city\u2019s archaic infrastructure is compromised through compounding climate bombardments, we need Mayor Mamdani to rise to the moment to deliver to New Yorkers what he himself promised: to keep us safe and healthy in our schools, our homes and our places of work, while confronting the affordability crisis head on.\u201d \u2014 Ken Schles, Rise and Resist Climate Co-organizer.<\/p>\n
\u201cNew York City students at TREEage have spent the first month of the academic year focused primarily on the fight for Green Healthy Schools. With Mayor Mamdani in office, they have felt hopeful that this legislation will finally be implemented and are beginning to envision a safe and sustainable school system in the near future. Students, however, are disappointed by the limited progress made by the Mamdani administration so far. Youth organizers and allies have outlined creative, effective, and actionable solutions and are calling on the Mayor to prioritize their implementation. We know this is possible, and we urge the Mayor to follow through on the climate justice commitments he has made.\u201d said Kathryn Gioiosa, Executive Director of TREEage.<\/p>\n
\u201cMayor Mamdani has the power to deliver cleaner air, more jobs, and lower bills to thousands of New Yorkers by strengthening our laws to make buildings more energy efficient, goals he supported on the campaign trail. So, why isn\u2019t he keeping his word yet as Mayor?\u201d said Danilo Martinez, Queensborough Community College student and NYPIRG student board chair. \u201cWe\u2019re counting on the Mayor to keep his promises to students, tenants, and homeowners: Close the Landlord Loophole, reject fossil fuels, and lead NYC into the affordable, healthy, green future.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the past year, Sunrise NYC has zeroed in on issues sitting at the intersection of the climate and affordability crises, including rising energy bills that threaten New Yorkers\u2019 health while funding the buildout of more fossil fuel infrastructure,\u201d said Avalon Akashi, Sunrise Movement NYC Hub Coordinator. \u201cHowever, we need our elected officials, especially Mayor Mamdani, to also champion climate legislation. We urgently ask our Mayor to sponsor green, affordable infrastructure as a first step towards realizing his vision for a safe, livable and healthy New York together.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf New York is going to lead the way on fighting climate change, we cannot keep building more dirty fossil fuel infrastructure. Mayor Mamdani needs to lead the fight against dirty energy projects like the Williams NESE pipeline and the Gowanus fracked gas power plant. As a candidate, Mamdani committed to shutting down dirty energy infrastructure; now we need him as mayor to deliver,\u201d said Jonathan Westin, Executive Director at Climate Defenders.<\/p>\n
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