Actions to Take at Home: Connect with NYCP’s Free Clean Energy Coaches
Our free energy coach can help you answer your energy questions, such as:
- Do I need an energy audit? How do I get one?
- Are there things I can do myself to cut energy use and save money?
- Are heat pumps right for me?
- Can I save money with community solar? How do I choose?
- Do I need an EV charger? How much do they cost?
Visit our Clean Energy Coaching Page to learn more about our coaches and to schedule a Clean Energy Coaching Session.
Take Action in Your Community:
Request an NYCP Team Member to Present on NY’s Clean Energy Transition
- “Working for Change” is designed to inspire the next generation of climate leaders and support the development of New York’s clean energy workforce, driving progress in the state’s rapidly growing clean energy economy.
- “Plug in the Sun” workshop, geared towards groups of 9 to 12-year-olds. An interactive, curriculum-linked workshop focused on increasing awareness of renewable energy and solar power. Students will learn about solar photovoltaic and solar thermal systems, and how solar panels have been used in a variety of innovations. Using interactive experiments, students will discover how angles, light color and certain elements can affect the energy output of solar panels. The workshop is 1.5-2 hours total
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- New Yorkers for Clean Power presents “Green the Grid & Electrify Everything“, an engaging and illustrated walk through the Climate Act and all things Clean Power in New York. Green the Grid answers the questions you have and breaks down jargon to make the answers accessible to non-experts, while also including enough detail to engage policy enthusiasts. Come away energized and hopeful about the climate action path before us.
Request a presentation for your community group.
Action at the State Level:
Send a Letter to Urge Gov. Hochul to Protect Communities and Hold Massive Corporations Accountable for Their Pollution
Some of the wealthiest corporations in the world are building hundreds of giant warehouses in our communities. Each warehouse brings thousands of polluting trucks to our neighborhoods that spew diesel soot into our homes, schools and businesses. This problem continues to grow as companies offer faster and faster deliveries. The amount of warehouses in New York has boomed in the last twenty years with the huge growth in the last ten years.
In areas like the South Bronx — where 40% of residents live below the poverty line and 95% identify as Hispanic or Black — over 15,000 diesel trucks spew dangerous pollution into the community every day. This onslaught is causing dangerous health impacts, largely because of this relentless tailpipe pollution. 1 in every 5 children in the South Bronx has asthma — that is eight to twelve times the national average.
By failing to act on warehouse pollution, Governor Hochul is taking away New Yorkers’ right to clean air and allowing more pollution into our communities, which will lead to increased health care costs, more ER visits, more lost workdays, and more missed school days.
It’s past time for these massive corporations to do their part. The cost of convenience does not have to be our lungs. There are multiple ways that warehouses can clean up their act and support New York’s transition to cleaner transportation. 2026 can be the year that New York puts the health of our communities first and holds massive polluters accountable to being better neighbors.
Use this tool to urge your legislators to support clean deliveries.