January 15, Dear Governor Cuomo & Legislators,

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1 January 15, 2019 Dear Governor Cuomo & Legislators, On behalf of the undersigned organizations, we urge you to institute policies that are bold and ambitious enough to meet the challenge of preventing climate change. Specifically, we call upon you to champion legislation that would ban new fossil fuel infrastructure and move New York to 100 percent renewable energy by Four years ago, New York made the historic decision to ban fracking. Unfortunately, since then, our state has contended with an onslaught of proposals for pipelines and power plants that transport and burn fracked gas, maintaining our reliance on dirty fossil fuels. At the same time, New York still only produces 5 percent of its electricity from solar and wind power. Vague commitments to a Green New Deal are insufficient, as is a goal of shifting to renewable energy by 2040 only in electricity generation. The evidence is clear: a rapid and just transition off fossil fuels is desperately needed to forestall even greater catastrophic impacts of climate change. Anything less is scientifically and morally indefensible. We urge you to make New York a true climate leader by passing legislation as strong as necessary to prevent further catastrophe. Signed by 136 organizations: 14th Street Y CSA 1st Presbyterian Church 350Brooklyn 350NYC All Our Energy Alliance of New York Family Councils Aytzim: Ecological Judaism Beth Gelfond Marketing Big Apple Coffee Party Big Reuse Bronx Climate Justice North Brooklyn For Peace Broome Tioga Green Party

2 Campaign for Renewable Energy CC4HV Cc4hv Center for Urban Environmental Reform Church Women United in New York State Citizen Science Community Resources, Inc. Citizens for Clean Water Citizens' Environmental Coalition Clean and Healthy New York Climate Action Mondays Climate Justice Committee of CNY Solidarity Coalition Coastal Research and Education Society of Long Island (CRESLI) Code Pink New York Cody Creek Farm Colorbrightongreen.org Community Advocates for a Sustainable Environment Concerned Citizens of Rural Broome D&G Gardening and Renewable Energy Delaware Riverkeeper Network Dryden Resource Awareness Coalition Elmirans and Friends Against Fracking Empire State Indivisible Environment Committee, NYCD16 Indivisible Environmental Justice Task Force of the Wester New York Peace Center

3 Environmental Stewardship Committee - New York Society for Ethical Culture Erie County Green Party Food & Water Watch Fossil Free Tompkins Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement G&D Gardening & Renewable Energy Services Gas Free Seneca Good Noodles Inc. Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition Greece Baptist Church Green Education and Legal Fund Green Party of Brooklyn Green Party of Monroe County Green Party of Nassau County Green Party of Onondaga County Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. Hudson Valley Green Party Hunger Action Network NYS Lewis Waite Farm Little Lakes Sustainability Network Metro N.Y. Catholic Climate Movement Network of Holistic Activists New Paltz Climate Action Coalition New York Communities for Change (NYCC)

4 New York Conference United Church of Christ New York Heartwoods New York Solar Energy Society Nine Mile Farm North American Climate, conservation and Environment(NACCE) North Country 350 Alliance North Shore Audubon Society Northeast Organic Farming Association -- New York (NOFA-NY) Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Nuclear Information and Resource Service NW Bronx Indivisible NYC DSA EcoSocialist Working Group NYC H2O Otsego 2000, Inc. PAUSE - People of Albany United for Safe Energy Peacemakers of Schoharie County People for a Healthy Environment Peoples Climate Movement NY Plymouth Friends for Clean Water Principled Progressives of Orange County Progressive Women of Pelham Promoting Health and Sustainable Energy (PHASE) Putnam Progressives RAFT (Residents Allied for the Future of Tioga)

5 Reach Out America Redemptorsistine Nuns Regional Farm and Food Project Rensselaer Community Action Revolt Against Plutocracy ROAR (Religious Organizations Along the River) Rochester Interfaith Climate Action Rochester Pachamama Alliance Rochester People's Climate Coalition Rockland Divestment Committee Roctricity Sacred River Healing Safe Energy Rights Group, Inc. Sanctuary Woods Sane Energy Project SCRAM Seneca Lake Guardian, a Waterkeeper Alliance Affiliate Sharon Springs Against Hydrofracking Show Up LI Sisters of Charity Federation Sisters of Charity of New York Sisters of St. Dominic of Blauvelt, New York Slow Food New York State Solarize Albany County

6 South Asian Fund For Education, Scholarship and Training ( SAFEST) Stop NY Fracked Gas Pipeline Sunnyside CSA Sustainable Food Trade Association Sustainable Tompkins Sustainable Warwick The Children's Sangha The Climate Mobilization NY The Green Sanctuary Committee, Community Church of New York, UU THomas Berry Forum Ecological Dialogue Thomas Berry Forum for Ecological Dialogue Tompkins County Climate Protection Climate Initiative Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative Town of Ulysses Tricounty NY Transition United for Action United University Professions Upper Green Side UU Congregation of Binghamton, Green Sanctuary Veterans For peace - NYC Chapter 34 Veterans For Peace, Chapter 10, albany Weather Medic Inc WESPAC Foundation, Inc West Branch Conservation Association

7 Wittenberg Center For Alternative Resources WNY Peace Center Zen Mountain Monastery