New York's Home Energy Affordable Transition (HEAT) act

 

The New York Home Energy Affordable Transition or 

NY HEAT Act would lower home energy bills for

 millions of New Yorkers who have natural gas service.

If passed, the the law would direct the state’s Public 

Service Commission to limit the average energy 

burdens of low-to-moderate income households

to 6% of their earnings.

In the recent session of the New York legislature the

 act passed in the Senate but failed in the Assembly.

Legislation to enact the Heat Act will go the State 

legislature again in the upcoming session. 

Advocates are lobbying Governor Hochal to include the

 act in her up-coming budget. 

 

We spoke to Brynn Fuller-Becker of the group 

New Yorkers for clean power

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Funding Waste Water Clean up

 

In 2021 New York state voters approved an amendment to the state constitution.

The Green Amendment guarantees citizens the right to clean air, clean water

and a healthful environment.

 

This summer the Suffolk Legislature refused to put a public referendum on this

November’s ballot to create an eighth of a penny sales tax to fund new septic 

systems and to consolidate the county’s 27 sewer districts.

The nonprofit environmental organizations Save the Sound, Group for the East 

End, and Peconic Baykeeper have told the Suffolk Legislature that failure to take

meaningful action to address nitrogen pollution resulting from outdated

and inadequate septic systems violates the Green Amendment. 

Francesca Rheannon spoke with Bob Deluca of Group for the East End this week.

 

Listen here

more info:  

East End Beacon

groupfortheeastend.org