Public Power NY Coalition Responds to Hochul’s Budget
Albany, New York – Today Governor Kathy Hochul announced that her budget proposal includes aspects of the Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA), a widely popular piece of legislation that passed the Senate last year. Hochul’s plan allows the New York Power Authority to build renewable energy and requires the DPS to provide some discount for low-income New Yorkers, but fails to include key labor provisions and other critical elements of BPRA that will ensure access to affordable clean energy, create good union jobs, and provide a safer, secure future for New York families. Read more
“Overseeing racial discrimination at NYPA must be the end for Justin Driscoll’s mistaken nomination”
This morning, the Buffalo News broke the shocking news that Justin Driscoll, Governor Hochul’s nominee to lead the New York Power Authority (NYPA), failed to take action against systematic racial discrimination against Black employees at NYPA while he served as Executive Vice President, and actively fought to dismiss claims as General Counsel. Members of the…
DRISCOLL’S NEWLY REVEALED LEGAL LEGACY IS DISQUALIFYING
New information from LittleSis reveals that Justin Driscoll, Governor Hochul’s nominee to lead the New York Power Authority (NYPA), successfully worked to deny land rights to indigenous people and healthcare to New Yorkers. Driscoll, who has been acting CEO of NYPA for the last 18 months, also donated over a thousand dollars to a member of…
New Yorkers win historic victory for Public Power
New Yorkers have won the most transformational climate and green jobs bill in the nation. The passage of the Build Public Renewables Act is a historic victory that will improve the lives of New Yorkers and be a model of how to rapidly ramp up the production of renewable energy for the country.
Corporations Can’t “Confine” Our Future
In 2019, just 4% of New York’s energy came from wind and solar power. In 2023, New York still gets just 4% of our energy from wind and solar power. Entrusting New York’s renewable buildout to for-profit companies, represented by IPPNY and ACE-NY, has failed to contain skyrocketing bills, racist pollution, union-busting contractors, and potent…
“Build Public Renewables, Not Prison Renewables” – PPNY blasts Hochul and Driscoll
“While we have been fighting tooth and nail to get the Governor to support building publicly owned renewable energy for New Yorkers who need it most, she’s been busy using the New York Power Authority’s capacity to install solar on prisons.