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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Corporate utilities are making a killing. Working people are done paying for it. Join @chiosse.bsky.social, @jabaribrisport.bsky.social, @sarahana.bsky.social & neighbors across the city on Tuesday for the Utility Ripoff Hearing! Share your story & join the fight to take back our power system.

PUBLIC POWER NY COALITION Presents
NEW YORKERS VS BAD UTILITIES
UTILITY RIPOFF HEARING
COMING TO YOUR BOROUGH!
next stop
BROOKLYN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 6 - 8 PM
HERBERT VON KING PARK AMPHITHEATER
RSVP
BIT.LY/UTILITY RIPOFFHEARING
UNAB
sane energy project
NYC-DSA ECOSOCIALISTS
Utility Customers Association
FOOD & WATER WATCH

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NYC-DSA Ecosocialists @nycdsaecosoc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

$300 dollars on a bill just to be safe in an extreme heatwave? That’s the kind of stuff that would make a horror movie monster blush. If you’ve been ripped off by utility bill horrors, come tell us about it on Tuesday at the Utility Ripoff Hearing. RSVP below ⬇️

UTILITY HORROR STORIES
BEWARE, THE HEAT WAVE
NYC-DSA
ECOSOCIALISTS

BEWARE, THE HEAT WAVE
LOCATION: ELMHURST
A Texan friend once said,
"Air conditioning should be a human right."
I had just left Minnesota and thought she was joking. She told me how serious heat waves really were, and now I've lived through them— and paid for it in more ways than one.
We had a heat dome over the city this summer, trapping humidity and heat and baking everything inside. I have a neurological condition where my body can't regulate temperature normally.
A heat wave could be deadly for me...
So even when I couldn't afford it, I ran my AC most days during the summer to not get sick.

I ran it on the energy saving setting and weatherproofed my apartment with
reflective film on the windows, but my bill still came out to
almost $3oo during the worst months-and that was for one room in a studio apartment.
Nobody should have to choose between staying alive or going into credit card debt to be functional, but that's often the position I find myself in, thanks to ConEd jacking up the prices.
My parents live in a town with municipal utilities, and they pay less than I do to keep the lights on for an entire house!
ConEd is punishing people with
disabilities on top of making NYC unlivable.

SICK OF BEING STALKED BY CORPORATE MONSTERS
We're fighting back!
DM us your utility horror story and join us Tuesday, October 6th at the Utility Ripoff Hearing.
bit.ly/utilityripoffhearing

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

3 years after New Yorkers won the Build Public Renewables Act, NYPA is finally breaking ground and just announced one of its biggest projects yet. But this is just one small step. New York still needs at least 15 gigawatts. It’s time for more, and faster.

POLITICO
Weekly NY & NJ Energy
NYPA BACKS NORTH COUNTRY SOLAR PROJECT:
The New York Power Authority is partnering with a private developer to move forward on a large-scale solar project for the first time since the success of the Build Public Renewables campaign.
NYPA announced Monday it bought 51 percent of the 240 megawatt Rich Road solar project in St.
Lawrence County. A subsidiary of French energy giant EDF will retain ownership of the rest of the project and oversee construction.

This is NYPA's second large-scale solar project after the authority purchased 100 percent of the 20 megawatt Somers Solar project from CS Energy in March 2025.
That project also has a NYSERDA contract. The authority also backed the smaller 5 megawatt Hannacroix Solar project in Greene County earlier this year.
The Rich Road project has a newly finalized state contract, announced last week. That means it will get subsidies ultimately paid for by New York ratepayers.
The project had previously won an award from NYSERDA's 2021 procurement for new renewables but cancelled it amid rising costs.
The project is expected to start construction next year and start operations in 2029. The project will support NYPA's program to provide bill credits to low-income New York residents, known as Renewable Energy Access and Community Help, or REACH. Payments to local governments are still to be negotiated, according to NYPA.

The project will get expiring federal tax credits and is the first to leverage a public-private partnership model, NYPA President and CEO Justin Driscoll said in a statement.
NYPA got another $100 million from the second round of the Sustainable Future Fund in this year's budget, on top of $200 million announced last year.
The authority has faced pressure from Public Power NY to accelerate investments in new renewables. The group has campaigned for the authority to advance 15 gigawatts of new solar and wind. The authority's latest plan has a pipeline of about 5.5 GWs of projects, although more are under consideration.

YOUR PRESSURE IS
WINNING PUBLIC RENEWABLES
But we have a lot more to go to build a livable future.
Stay tuned for updates on how you can keep up the pressure to build an energy system that puts New Yorkers first.

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Opening your utility bill shouldn’t raise your blood pressure. But every month, ConEd and National Grid give New Yorkers a nasty surprise. 🤬🧾 Join us for the first Utility Ripoff Hearing on October 6th to learn how they’re scamming us and how we can take our power back. ⚡️

PUBLIC POWER NY COALITION Presents
NEW YORKERS VS BAD UTILITIES
UTILITY RIPOFF HEARING
COMING TO YOUR BOROUGH!
RSVP
BROOKLYN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6 6 - 8 PM
HERBERT VON KING
PARK AMPHITHEATER
BIT.LY/UTILITY RIPOFFHEARING

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“This broken system is a choice. We can choose differently.” Public renewables are the best way to tackle the climate crisis AND high utility bills at the same time — and as @illapa.nyc writes, New Yorkers need them now more than ever. www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/23/u...

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Use public power to curb climate change

New Yorkers needed only to look outside this summer to know that the climate crisis is upon us. In just one month we were hit with heat wave after heat wave, saw our air choked with wildfire smoke, an...

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NYC-DSA Ecosocialists @nycdsaecosoc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

They don’t even try to hide it: once corporate lobbyists put their gas soaked thumbs on the scale, Kathy Hochul fast-tracked new pipelines. That’s who this governor really serves. Hit the link in bio to sign up for an event & plug into the fight to take our power back. 😤💪🌹

LEVER
BREAKING
Fossil Fuel Front
Claims Credit for Hochul's
Pro-Fossil Fuel Shift
By Katya Schwenk | Aug 28, 2026

At a fossil fuel industry conference in April, the pipeline-backed group Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future took credit for Hochul's change of heart, boasting of "high-level engagement" with her office. According to the group's executive director, Susan Waller, Natural Allies provided the governor's office with in-house polling on New Yorkers' views on natural gas shortly before Hochul's announcement.

"They had their pollsters call our pollster and sit down and go through it,"
Waller told a crowd of fossil fuel executives and lobbyists. "And within a very short time - weeks - Kathy Hochul went with all of the above."
According to slides and audio of Waller's presentation reviewed by The Lever, Hochul's flip-flop marked a victory for Natural Allies and its corporate benefactors' aggressive 2026 political strategy amid changing headwinds in the Democratic Party: "Leveraging concern about affordability to change the politics around natural gas."

The materials provide an inside look into how pipeline companies and fossil fuel interests, eyeing the fault lines running through the Democratic Party, are trying to quell the party's burgeoning populist wing, win the support of establishment actors like Hochul, and build, in their words, a
"bulwark against the far-left."

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is OUR energy. Why should we pay more to subsidize Big Tech? Public power needs to serve New Yorkers first. That means lowering our bills, not giving handouts to data centers.

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Our energy system must serve New Yorkers, not Big Tech oligarchs. That’s why @kristengonzalez.bsky.social is rallying in Rockland County today to demand New York pass the Responsible Data Center Development Act, build public renewables, and put communities over data centers.

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Clean Air Coalition of WNY @cacwny.org · 25/08/2026

@governor.ny.gov - we need you to sign the Responsible Data Centers Development Act! NYPA - we need you to implement a 15GW goal for the Build Public Renewables Act, and direct that power to people, not tech!

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

While New Yorkers pay the 3rd highest utility bills in the country, @governor.ny.gov’s NYPA is giving discounted power to corporate data centers at 5% of the rate residents pay. That energy belongs to New Yorkers. Public power should be for lowering their bills, not corporate handouts.

New York agencies have provided at least $321 million to corporations building data centers in Rockland County since 2013, according to a new report by government watchdog group Reinvent Albany.

The Rockland County Development Agency and the New York Power Authority offered the corporations — including JPMorgan Chase, Bloomberg and DataBank Holdings and Tenants — state and local sales tax exemptions and power subsidies to build 11 data centers in the county.

$Using New York State Energy Research and Development Authority data, the report found that while the average New York household pays $244 per megawatt-hour for electricity services, data centers in Rockland County, located about 40 miles north of New York City, paid a fraction of that, or $12.88 per megawatt-hour. In addition, the building and operation of the data centers created 298 “full-time equivalent jobs,” costing taxpayers $1.078 million per job, the report found.$

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Our pressure is working! Thousands of New Yorkers are demanding more funding for public renewables, and the state legislature is listening. Now we need to bring the pressure to @governor.ny.gov who so far is insisting on raising our utility rates with even more natural gas!

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Great coverage of the fight for public power in AMNY, including ⚡ Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's support for 15 GW of public renewables 💡 The new Public Power Democracy Act 🏛️ The need to fund public renewables in the budget www.amny.com/news/new-yor...

amny.com

Power struggle: Why the New York Power Authority is taking heat over cutbacks on renewable energy – amNewYork

On Dec. 19, 2025, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Public Renewables Transparency Act, sponsored by Assembly Member Sarahana Shrestha (D-Ulster County), to open

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callmekieda.bsky.social @callmekieda.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The cost of electricity in NY is rising, and will be exacerbated by the multiplying data centers required for the current AI obsession. actionnetwork.org/letters/2026... @publicpowerny.bsky.social is pushing for larger investments in renewable energy to help offset costs.

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Fund Public Renewables to Lower Our Bills!

The twin crises of climate change and the cost of living require immediate action. As Donald Trump and the Republican Congress continue to fan the flames of the crisis, it is up to states like New Yor...

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Thanks to our movement, the Public Renewables Transparency Act is now NYS law! The PRTA will ensure that the state's planning for public renewables happens out in the open, not behind closed doors. Thank you to @sengianaris.bsky.social and @sarahana.bsky.social for your leadership!

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Third Act Upstate New York @thirdactupstateny.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Hochul continues to reject clean, affordable energy for New York: "The coalition behind @publicpowerny.bsky.social says the cuts will worsen both the climate crisis and the state’s affordability crisis, eliminating an estimated 2,500 union jobs and potentially leading to higher utility bills."

fingerlakes1.com

Advocates blast Hochul’s plan to cut public renewables | Fingerlakes1.com

Climate advocates and labor organizers are calling out Governor Kathy Hochul after the New York Power Authority (NYPA) proposed a major rollback to its public renewable energy goals—cutting 1.5 gigawa...

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Our energy system is in crisis, and New Yorkers demand action. Public power can lower our bills, create union jobs, clean our air, and save our future--but only if NYPA listens to the people. The Public Power Democracy Act will ensure they have the leadership to get the job done.

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

It's baffling to see @governor.ny.gov work overtime to trash our climate law, poison our water and air, and raise our utility rates to line the pockets of fossil fuel barons--until you see how much money is flying around between big polluters, big lobbyists, and Hochul's campaign

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Great coverage of our fight for #PublicRenewables, our longstanding collab with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, and the future of public power in NYC -- from @grist.org (full article in reply)

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

While successful politicians fight for affordability, Hochul’s anti-climate crusade will only drive New Yorkers’ utility bills up. Whether this betrayal is due to personal corruption or orders from Trump, it’s not too late to lead by building public renewables. 📰 publicpowerny.org/press-releas...

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Did Hochul Approve Williams Pipeline To Help Husband's Firm? — Public Power NY

The New York Times broke the disturbing news that Governor Kathy Hochul’s husband makes nearly $1 million a year at Davis Polk, the law firm representing owners of the costly and unpopular Williams Pi...

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Kathy Hochul could bring down bills and protect our future by building 15 gigawatts of public renewables. Instead, she's raising bills to build Trump's fracked gas pipeline and a crypto mine. Is this why? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...

Hochul Approved Permits That Could Help Clients of Her Husband’s Firm
Opponents of a natural gas pipeline approved by Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York noted that the project would benefit a client of the prominent law firm where her husband works.

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Harrison Carpenter-Neuhaus 🪚🏠 @harrison-cn.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

corruption is back, baby! free for all!

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

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NYC-DSA Ecosocialists @nycdsaecosoc.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

How dare you imply that being married to someone at the firm representing the Williams Pipeline would affect @governor.ny.gov’s judgment? She is totally capable of being a strong female corporate sell-out all by herself. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...

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Hochul Approved Permits That Could Help Clients of Her Husband’s Firm

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

NEW from @politico.com: @delgadoforny.bsky.social has called on NYPA and @governor.ny.gov to build 15 GW of public renewables by 2030!

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Folks, we are so close to a very important comment milestone, but they close very soon. If you live in New York State, take 15 seconds to send a comment for 15 GW ASAP! ⚡️ publicpowerny.org/take-action/

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

In 2023, we won the Build Public Renewables Act — a groundbreaking law empowering NYS to speed up the clean energy transition and lower your bills with publicly-owned power. Today is the deadline to tell the New York Power Authority that we need a plan for 15 GW by 2030. Take urgent action below.

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

You can be a part of the sequel if you send a comment right now! publicpowerny.org/take-action/

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

New Yorkers need to leave digital public comments demanding 15 Gigawatts (GW) of public renewables by 2030. It takes 15 seconds to do with this tool: publicpowerny.org/take-action. THE DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 12, ALL COMMENTS NEED TO BE IN BY TODAY!!

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

🫡 You heard her, get your comment in today before it's too late!

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

In the fight for Public Power, there are few greater champions than Assemblymember @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. First, let him remind you of why New York *will* lead our future. And second... take 30 seconds to do it before tonight! publicpowerny.org/take-action

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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

when I started doing climate organizing in 2017, the main enemies were: Donald Trump Andrew Cuomo The Williams Pipeline so uh, hell fucking no. please send a comment if your in NY ➡️ publicpowerny.org/take-action

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Kathy Hochul is trying to help Donald Trump revive the most hated energy project in New York. Learn just why it's so bad, and then send a comment and publicpowerny.org/take-action to make sure we lead on protecting our climate instead! 🧵

Headline: Why We Need To Stop The Williams Pipeline over images of Kathy Hochul and Donald Trump

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Clean Air Coalition of WNY @cacwny.org · 11/09/2025

Send a comment to NYPA urging a 15 GW renewable energy build goal before the deadline on Friday (end of day TOMORROW!) publicpowerny.org/take-action/

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Take Action — Public Power NY

Events More coming soon

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

On climate, @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social writes that Hochul and Trump "appear to be BFFs." New Yorkers deserve better.

Hochul, by contrast, approved the Iroquois pipeline earlier this year and seems to be kowtowing to Trump by expediting approval for the wildly unpopular Williams and Constitution pipelines. The Williams pipeline was rejected by the state's Department of Conservation three times under Andrew Cuomo (himself no wild-eyed opponent of Trump, as we have recently seen).

It's not the first time Hochul has flip-flopped on this issue. She has fought hard against the Build Public Renewables Act, a landmark piece of climate legislation designed to create and expand publicly owned renewable energy projects in New York. At first she tried to simply defeat it, then she tried to water it down and politically weaken it by cutting out the labor and
environmental justice provisions. When none of that worked, she appointed a Republican to head the relevant agency, Justin Driscoll, who has testified that the public ownership requirement should be stripped - from the Build Public Renewables Act.

While New Yorkers are struggling to afford necessary energy for their daily lives, and we as a polity are trying to create renewable, clean alternatives to fossil fuels, the last thing we should prioritize are these job-killing, water-wasting, and extremely energy-intensive instruments of human alienation.
Hochul's energy policy isn't just bad by normal climate metrics. Not only does she resist policy reforms that will lower emissions, she resists energy affordability itself. Her own agency has presided over punishing rate hikes, while refusing to be a true partner in the cause of public power, the only way to truly guarantee energy in the public interest.

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Hey @governor.ny.gov, we fixed your campaign ad for you. Time to fix the state's energy plan and build 15 GW of public renewables!

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Governor Hochul didn't want to hold an in-person hearing on NYPA's renewable energy plan. So we held one ourselves. New Yorkers are speaking loud and clear: We must build public renewables at the speed and scale that the climate crisis requires.

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Hey @governor.ny.gov, we fixed your campaign ad for you. Time to fix the state's energy plan and build 15 GW of public renewables!

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

If they're too scared to hold in-person hearings, we'll hold one for them. On Tuesday, Sept 9 join us for a People's Hearing For Public Renewables in NYC, with top organizers, elected officials, and labor unions. New York *will* lead our future. 🔜 actionnetwork.org/events/peopl...

Red event poster with headline:

A People’s Hearing for Public Renewables

Senator Jabari Brisport
Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes
Jamaal Bowman
Sumaya Awad
UAW 9A
UFT
PSC-CUNY
& more!

Tuesday, September 9, 2025 at 6:30pm
First Unitarian Church, 119 Pierpont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Don't blame us, we voted for Kodos

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/09/2025

Here's the great @cassiewillson.bsky.social with another way Hochul's dropping the ball and something you can do about it: bsky.app/profile/cass...

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John Farrell @johnffarrell.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

So good. Build public renewables.

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

God I love climate comms like this

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cassie willson @cassiewillson.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

NYers go tell Kathy to protect our future! publicpowerny.org/take-action/

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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

the 🐐

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Donald Trump and Kathy Hochul are standing in the way of lower utility bills, safer air for Black and brown neighborhoods, and tens of thousands of union jobs. Watch Carla Marie on how.. and how you can take 15 seconds to make sure New York leads our future anyway. ➡️ publicpowerny.org/take-action

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Public Power NY @publicpowerny.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Happy Labor Day! Building 15 gigawatts of public renewables will create 25,000 green union jobs.

Zohran Mamdani holding a megaphone at a rally, flanked by people holding up signs that say "15 Gigawatts for 25,000 Union Jobs: Build Public Renewables"

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