Recent Gas Drilling News:

Wednesday, January 11th marked the end of DEC's public comment period for the draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement. 
Atlantic Chapter members and supporters submitted over 4000 comments highlighting the many flaws with the dSGEIS!

See our official Atlantic Chapter Comments
&
National Sierra Club's Joint Comments (submitted with Catskill Mountainkeeper, NRDC, Earthjustice and others)
More technical and in-depth comments and attachments found here.

Read the Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact statement on Horizontal Hydrofracking at:
http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/75370.html

Upcoming Events:

Rally for Renewables, Not Fracking

When: Thursday, January 26th at 5pm

Where: Southeast corner of 49th Street and Rockefeller Plaza

Governor Cuomo is hosting this year’s Democratic Governors Association Conference in NYC at Rockefeller Plaza’s Top of the Rock.  The Democratic Party needs to know that voters want an investment in renewable energy and not dirty fossil fuels.   We’ll be calling on Governor Cuomo, especially, to ban fracking and invest instead in New York's green economy.

Join us for a rally and press conference at the Southeast corner of 49th Street and Rockefeller Plaza (diagonally across the street from 30 Rock).  Be sure to bring signs touting a Renewable Energy Future for New York!

Sponsored by: Frack Action, United for Action, Democracy for America, Democracy for New York City, Sierra Club-Atlantic Chapter

Event Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/events/287280367998535/

Other Recent News:

Say "No!" to Garbage Incinerators as a Renewable Energy Source (Updated!)

Recently, we asked our members and friends to take action against a petition to include garbage incineration in New York's Renewable Portfolio Standard Program.

The idea is detrimental to NY's progress as we work towards our goal of reducing solid waste by 86% by 2030. It would also severely limit the support given to wind, solar, and recycling projects, the industries that are working to better NY's energy future.

Burning municipal solid waste is not only harmful to the environment, but also to human health as toxic emissions are release during the incineration.

The Public Service Commission (PSC) took comments through Friday, August 19th.  Our efforts garnered 2000+ comments to the PSC telling them that garbage incineration is NOT a renewable form of energy, should NOT receive subsidies, and is NOT an option in NY's sustainable energy future.  You can see the comments from the Atlantic Chapter and other groups here.

Thank you for all of those that took action!

Update: Thanks to the more than 2,500 letters of opposition, Covanta withdrew its petition. Read more here.