MEMO IN SUPPORT OF INCREASED SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FUND INVESTMENT
To meet the urgent challenges facing our energy system, we urge New York State leaders to invest $3 billion annually in the Sustainable Future Fund until a cap and invest program is fully implemented with strong safeguards to protect disadvantaged communities from pollution.
Energy demand is rising, yet New York is not producing enough power to meet projected needs. At the same time, fossil fuel price volatility is driving energy costs higher and placing a burden on working families.
We must keep clean energy projects moving and build our way out of this crisis to stay on track. Local clean energy is the fastest, most cost-effective, and reliable path to powering our economy, lowering costs, improving public health, and reversing the legacy of pollution and increasing direct investments in disadvantaged communities.
We are calling for sustained, predictable funding with labor standards attached to modernize the grid, expand transmission, improve energy efficiency in our homes and buildings, and deploy projects through all agency avenues at the necessary scale, all while supporting good union jobs and reducing pollution across the state.
A recurring $3 billion investment in the Sustainable Future Fund, paired with direct investments in disadvantaged communities, will ensure New York stays on track to build a resilient, affordable, healthier, and equitable clean energy future.
Sincerely,
New York League of Conservation Voters
New York State AFL-CIO
New York State Building and Construction Trades Council
Climate Jobs NY
American Lung Association
Association for Energy Affordability
Building and Construction Trades Council of Nassau & Suffolk Counties
Building Decarbonization Coalition
Catskill Mountainkeeper
Citizen Action of New York
Climate Can’t Wait
Climate Crisis Working Group Indivisible Mohawk Valley
Climate Families NYC
CNY Solidarity Coalition
Communities for Local Power
Community Advocates for a Sustainable Environment
Concerned Health Professionals of New York
DC9 Painters and Allied Trades
Earthjustice
El Puente de Williamsburg
Environmental Advocates
Environmental Defense Fund
Evergreen Action
For the Many
GreenFaith
Jewish Climate Action Network NYC
Laborers Local 1010
Laborers Local 79
Local Union #3 I.B.E.W.
Long Island Progressive Coalition
Mason Tenders District Council
Mothers Out Front NY
Natural Resources Defense Council
Network for a Sustainable Tomorrow
NY City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO
New York City District Council of Carpenters
New York City Environmental Justice Alliance
New York Energy Democracy Alliance
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
New York Progressive Action Network Environmental Committee
New York Public Interest Research Group
New York State Laborers’ (LIUNA)
New York State Pipe Trades
New Yorkers for Clean Power
New York Renews Coalition
ALIGN
Alliance for a Green Economy
Alliance for Clean Energy NY
All Our Energy
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
People for a Healthy Environment
Physicians for Social Responsibility – New York
Public Power NY
PUSH Buffalo
Queens Climate Project
Renewable Heat Now
Sane Energy Project
Seneca Lake Guardian
Sierra Club
Sixth Street Community Center
The Nature Conservancy
Third Act NYC
Third Act Upstate New York
Transition Town Port Washington
Vote Solar
We Act
Workers Center of Central New York
350Brooklyn
