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The Climate Jobs NY Monthly Newsletter
FEBRUARY 2021
Lead report: Thank you to all who turned out to support the South Fork Wind Project. Long Island Labor had over 40 union members submit oral and written comments for the South Fork Wind Project's draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) during the federal review process. CLICK FOR FULL NEWSLETTER
February 2021
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The Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the South Fork Offshore Wind Project is being considered by the Federal Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM). We need you to show your support for the South Fork Wind Project that will create good union jobs right here on Long Island by participating in public hearings this week and next. CLICK FOR FULL NEWSLETTER
JANUARY 2021
Lead report: During Governor Cuomo's State of the State address, he put clean energy at the center of our economic recovery. The plan includes strategic investments in a number of areas essential to successfully building New York’s clean-energy future, including offshore wind, large-scale solar, energy transmission, and storage. CLICK FOR FULL NEWSLETTER
DECEMBER 2020
Lead report: Over the course of 2020's unimaginable challenges and heartaches, we’ve seen the call for building our economy back better—addressing climate at the scale science demands and doing it with good, family-sustaining, community-supporting jobs—move to the forefront. We’ve seen a greater commitment to building a more just economy that takes on extreme inequality and systemic racism. We’ve seen a greater understanding of how we can take collective action. CLICK FOR FULL NEWSLETTER
NOVEMBER 2020
Lead report: Landmark Memorandum of Understanding paves way for U.S. offshore wind workforce transition Ørsted, the Danish offshore wind developer, and the National Association of Building Trades Unions (NABTU) signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) designed to transition our union brothers and sisters into the emerging offshore wind industry. CLICK FOR FULL NEWSLETTER
OCTOBER 2020
Lead report: During Climate Week, CJNY collaborated with The Worker Institute and Climate Jobs National Resource Center to host the Climate Jobs and Just Transition Summit that had 51 speakers/panelists and over 4,000 participants throughout the day. I'm proud to say that it was an enormous success. CLICK FOR FULL NEWSLETTER