PRESS

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April 25, 2024
Release:
Radioactivity and Toxicity in NYC’S Gas Distribution System

April 23, 2024
Release:
Climate Alert: New York’s 'Big Ugly' Budget

April 10, 2024
BKReader:
National Grid: The Financial Vampire Sucking Consumers and the Environment Dry

April 5, 2024
The Indypendent: How Can We Stop National Grid from Using Our Money to Poison Us?

March 18, 2024
Release:
Activists Take Stand Against National Grid's Rate Hikes and New York State Leaders’ Climate Inaction

January 22, 2024
New York Focus:
Hochul Is Ready to Start Weaning New York Off Gas

January 18, 2024
PIX11:
National Grid proposed price hike could raise utility bills by $300 yearly

January 17, 2024
News12 Brooklyn:
Concerned Greenpoint residents fighting to shut down National Grid’s local center by 2030
Release:
Activists and Elected Officials Will Gather in Greenpoint to Talk About Shocking Proposed Price Hikes from National Grid

January 9, 2024
In These Times
: This Emerging Green Technology Could Decarbonize Buildings and Provide Good Union Jobs

December 6, 2023
Gothamist:
National Grid customers in NY would see $30 higher monthly bills under proposed rate hike

December 1, 2023
News12 Brooklyn:
National Grid proposes bill hike that would impact New Yorkers
The New Republic: Renewables Projects Are Failing. Can New York Buck the Trend?

November 28, 2023
Brooklyn Paper:
‘The public doesn’t want it’: Brooklynites oppose National Grid proposal to hike bills by $30 per month
Release: Green New York Begins: New Yorkers & Electeds Launch “Biggest Public Clean Energy Buildout in History”

June 6, 2023
Release:
Renewable Heat Now Celebrates NY State Senate Passing NY HEAT ActAs Senate Leads on Lower Energy Bills, All Eyes On Assembly & Governor

May 1, 2023
Release:
Community and Advocates Respond to National Grid’s “Ruthless” Request to Raise Gas Bills to Fund More Fracked Gas Infrastructure, Call on Albany to Pass NY HEAT Act 

April 6, 2023
Release:
While National Grid scrambles to tear down New York’s Climate Law, No North Brooklyn Pipeline Alliance Celebrates Another Defeat Of National Grid In The North Brooklyn Fracked Gas Pipeline Fight Community Vows To Stay Vigilant In Response To National Grid’s Threat To Re-Apply For Its Fracked Gas Vaporizers and Its Current Lobbying To Undermine New York’s Climate Law

April 4, 2023
Release:
Amidst Industry Effort to Gut New York Climate Law, New Yorkers Demand Governor Hochul and DEC Deny “Iroquois” Fracked Gas Pipeline Expansion Proposal

March 31, 2023
Comment Submission
Sane Energy Project’s Comment in response to the Public Service Commission’s directive in the Order on Developing Thermal Energy Networks Pursuant to the Utility Thermal Energy Network and Jobs Act (UTENJA)

March 31, 2023
Sane Energy Project Opposes The Act Amending The Environmental Conservation Law And The Public Service Law, In Relation To The State Greenhouse Gas Emission Accounting System (S6030 PARKER 2023) 

March 16, 2023
Release:
VICTORY for Brooklyn Communities and Climate Justice. Public Service Commission Votes NO to National Grid’s Request For $70 Million of Public Money to Construct Liquefied Fracked Gas (LNG) Vaporizers at the apex of the North Brooklyn Pipeline.

December 30, 2022
Letter to the Governor:
Sane Energy calls on Governor Hochul and Commissioners Christian and Seggos to ensure that we retire, not replace or expand, fracked gas infrastructure.

December 14, 2022
Release:
Report finds National Grid’s Greenpoint LNG project would pose significant risks to already overburdened communities in North Brooklyn

December 14, 2022
Report:
Cumulative Impact Assessment of the Vaporizers 13 & 14 and the North Brooklyn Pipeline

December 14, 2022
Comment:
Sane Energy and Alliance for a Green Economy’s Comment on National Grid’s Proposed LNG Vaporizers

November 14, 2022
Release:
The Other End of the Pipeline - Heartbreaking Documentary Series Makes the Connection Between Communities Harmed By Fracked Gas in Rural Pennsylvania and New York City

September 22, 2022
Release:
Community members pack public hearing in Brooklyn to speak out against National Grid’s proposal to raise bills for new LNG Vaporizers

June 30, 2022
Sane Energy Statement on SCOTUS ruling in EPA v. West Virginia

April 7th, 2022
Governor Hochul and Speaker Carl Heastie Endanger Residents and Ignore Climate Science with a 2022 Budget that Feeds the Fossil Fuel Industry and their Corporate Utility Partners

March 24th, 2020
Coronavirus: Construction worker tests positive, but North Brooklyn Pipeline proceeds

March 9th, 2020
National Grid holds first public meeting on gas supply options

March 5th, 2020
Not Digging It: Unpopular Pipeline Sparks North Brooklyn Ire

February 28th, 2020
Police Arrest Ten Protestors on Friday as Pipeline Action Continues

August 9th, 2019 
The Indypendent: It Was Slated to be a Natural Gas Terminal, Then Environmentalists Raised their Voices

September 9th, 2019
Inside Climate News: After State Rejects Gas Pipeline Permit, Utility Pushes Back. One Result: New Buildings Go Electric.

July 16th, 2019
The Wave: Stirring Up Debate On Natural Gas

September 9th, 2019
Financial Times: National Grid and NY tussle over energy supplies

August 8th, 2019
Newsday: National Grid takes campaign for gas to radio

March 25th, 2019
am New York: New York Harbor pipeline fight escalates as feds near approval deadline

April 24th, 2019
am New York: Stop Williams Pipeline: Pols, activists urge Guv

April 25th, 2019 
The Wave: Protestors Urge Cuomo To Deny Pipeline

October 2nd, 2019 
Newsday: Senators urge ‘conditional’ approval of gas pipeline

October 3rd, 2019 
The Wave: A Sane Plan

October 4th, 2019
Anti-Pipeline Activists Show What New York Stands to Lose

September 25th, 2019 
DeSmog: Another Virtual Pipeline Truck Carrying Fracked Gas Crashes in New York. Local Climate Advocates Demand Urgent Action

April 19, 2019
Fios1 - City Council Hearing on Williams NESE Pipeline

May 13, 2019
Protesters Want More Renewable Energy, Less Natural Gas

September 19, 2019
Local students set to strike for climate action

February 21, 2019
Planned Billion-Dollar Natural Gas Pipeline Draws Criticism From Activists

February 27, 2019
Why a Pipeline Battle is Growing in Brooklyn

August 7, 2019
Williams Pipeline battle continues: What to know about the proposed natural gas conduit

April 22, 2019
Piping hot: Protesters demand Cuomo reject pipeline off Coney Island coast

May 13, 2019
Groups against new gas pipelines protest in Albany

May 16, 2019
New York’s Williams Pipeline is denied (but not dead)

May 16, 2019
A Defeat for Frackers

September 20, 2019
Public Awareness/Action Drives Responses To Climate Change