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New York Socialists Won Big on Climate Change / Liza Featherstone

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🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Liza Featherstone on her In These Times article, "New York Socialists Won Big On Climate. How Did It Happen?: We don’t have to settle for neoliberal half-measures." Seb looks inside history's most devastating civil war.

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Which side of you are on the one? I know he was a miner. This is hell.

0:27.0

money is the root of all evil and capitalism is all about money so you do the math.

0:40.0

This is hell and it was that kind of money that for-profit power providers were

0:47.0

insisting upon if they were going to provide the green power that citizens in the

0:51.6

state of New York were demanding in this age of worsening

0:55.0

climate change. But then something happened. The power of private power companies was finally

1:01.4

challenged by popular legislation in very halls of state power,

1:05.0

which the power providers had been dominating

1:10.0

seemingly forever.

1:11.0

So according to the website, public power NY.org, the Build Public Renewables Act is a New

1:20.1

York State bill that will unleash the power of public funding to build publicly owned

1:25.8

100% renewable energy, create a new era of green union jobs, help slash energy bills for those who need it most, and make New York a national

1:35.2

leader in the fight to win a future, we'd be proud to pass on to those to come.

1:41.3

B.P.R.A, again, the Build Public Renewables Act, unleashes the power of public funding,

1:48.0

including via the Inflation Reduction Act to build 100% renewable energy directly.

1:55.0

Public Power NY.org states,

1:57.8

while New York passed leading climate targets in 2019,

2:01.8

its reliance on four-profit corporations to meet them has kept New York

2:06.0

stuck at just 4% wind and solar power every year since.

2:11.1

BPRA enables the New York Power Authority, the nation's largest publicly owned

2:16.8

power provider, to fix this. Every year the New York Power Authority will perform a review on whether New York is on track to reach 70%

2:27.0

renewable by 2030 and 100% clean energy by 2040 per state mandates.

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