What's at stake:

New York is violating its own climate law. We're years behind schedule in fully implementing and funding our landmark law, and Governor Hochul has suggested she wants to weaken the law. We cannot let this continue.

Use this tool to send a letter to State Senate and Assembly leadership to demand that they hold firm to protect the climate law. It's time to make polluters pay and invest that money back into New York communities to lower energy bills, create tens of thousands of jobs in renewable energy and building upgrades, and create green, healthy homes.

Here's the letter you'll send:

Dear Speaker Heastie and Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins,

I am calling on you to protect our families and our futures by fully funding and implementing New York’s nation-leading climate law. Failing to do so would impact the lives of generations of New Yorkers to come. And weakening the law — as Gov. Hochul has suggested she may do this session — would condemn New Yorkers to health-harming pollution, ever-worsening heat waves and storms, and the rising cost of fossil fuels driven by utilities that demand endless rate hikes to patch outdated infrastructure. 

This session, we’re calling on you to fund the Sustainable Future Program with at least $3 billion in general revenue in the 2026-2027 Budget. This will account for the money we could have raised over the last year if NY’s Clean Air Initiative, cap and invest, were already in place — as it should be, both morally and legally. Across New York, Sustainable Future Program and Clean Air Initiative dollars could go toward lowering energy bills, creating tens of thousands of union jobs, and ensuring every New Yorker has a green, healthy home.

This funding is especially important as the state works toward finalizing a permanent, dedicated funding stream through cap and invest, aka the Clean Air Initiative. The Governor has had more than enough time to do this smoothly and affordably. We don't need misguided, expensive nuclear energy proposals that may never come to pass when there are affordable, reliable, and safe renewable energy technologies like solar available right now. But to build this renewable energy, New York needs to fund the climate law. And failing to fund the climate law or rolling it back would hurt everyone in New York State — especially Black, Brown, and low-income people living in disadvantaged communities, who are owed 40% of the state investments from climate law implementation. 

As the federal government slashes environmental regulations, New York must lead. We urge you to include an additional $3 billion for the Sustainable Future Fund in the FY 2026–27 State Budget to accelerate climate and clean energy projects statewide and to build on the momentum of last year’s $1 billion investment. 

Thank you for your time and action.

Sincerely,

[YOUR NAME]