Join us! Rockland Sierra Club and 350NJ-Rockland
Are Working On Climate Change & Local Environmental Issues.
Climate Smart Communities: With the Trump administration rejecting climate science, one of the most powerful ways we can impact climate change is through local government action. We are working with elected officials to promote active local participation in NY State programs to reduce the carbon footprint of our communities and to make them more climate resilient.
Fossil Fuel Divestment: Fossil fuel divestment & reinvestment in renewable energy are a moral imperative, It is also smart investing, since fossil fuels will decline as the world shifts to renewable energy. We are working to get the New York State pension fund to divest and to get Rockland’s four colleges to divest. And we are working to encourage individuals to divest (see our blog:
Oil & Gas Pipelines, Barges, & Trains: The key to stopping climate change is to burn less fossil fuels. We must leave the oil and gas in the ground, not build new infrastructure to burn more of it. We are working to stop pipelines proposed for Rockland County & elsewhere, as well as the expansion of barge and train transport of oil.
Climate Outreach: Stopping climate change requires a huge grassroots effort to pressure policy makers to join the worldwide shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Our outreach efforts educate people about the urgency of this issue and get them involved in doing something about it.
New Planet Energy Waste Gasification Plant: This enormous proposed plant is targeted for a site on the Hudson River in Stony Point. Truck traffic would clog local one lane roads and the plant would threaten local air quality. It would use technology that has not yet been successfully used anywhere else, and it raises numerous environmental threats. We are working to stop it.
Water: We recently won a remarkable victory, stopping a desalination plant that would have drawn drinking water 3.5 miles downstream from Indian Point’s leaking nuclear power plant. We continue to work for a sustainable water policy, encouraging water conservation and efficiency.
100% Renewables: Climate change activists throughout the country are advocating for 100% renewables as soon as possible. We will be joining this battle and working to get NY to be a leader.
Climate Action: We are mobilizing for Sandy5, marking the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy with a march over the Brooklyn Bridge on Oct 28, and we continue to promote other actions as they arise.
Opposing a NYS Constitutional Convention: A NYS Constitutional Convention would open up our Forest Preserve to real estate interests, would threaten protections for other areas such as public education, and would cost about $350 million of taxpayer money.
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