NYPIRG IS TURNING 50 – RSVP TODAY!

We hope that you can join us for this milestone to support NYPIRG, reconnect with friends and colleagues from years past, and get involved with our urgent issues and campaigns.

We are excited to be honoring renowned author and activist Jane Fonda, who will be attending the NYPIRG 50th Anniversary Celebration in person, along with her fellow honorees and NYPIRG Changemaker Award recipients Camille Rivera (Partner at New Deal Strategies), Martin Brennan (State Director for U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer), New York State Senator Liz Krueger, and David R. Jones (President and Chief Executive Officer at Community Service Society of New York).

Please visit nypirg.org/50th to register for the event and order tickets, commemorative journal ads, and/or sponsorship packages. Here are the event details:

• Friday, October 13, 2023
• 6 to 9 PM
• City Winery in Manhattan
• Open bar & hors d'oeuvres
• RSVP today!

Email us at 50th@nypirg.org if you have any questions or want to help with the planning.

You can submit our Alumni & Friends Network contact form if you would like to provide us with any updated contact information for future event correspondence.

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Here at NYPIRG, we are extremely proud and excited to be celebrating our 50 years of victories with this very special event. Your support will be simultaneously honoring NYPIRG’s decades of tireless work for the public interest and giving us the vital financial resources that we need to continue our mission, so please...

Thank you, and we look forward to celebrating with you!

NYPIRG marched to end fossil fuels!

With wildfire smoke choking the air that we breathe, hurricanes and floods threatening our homes, and toxic pollution making us sick, it has never been more urgent to end our dependence on the leading cause of these crises – fossil fuels.

In New York this September, the United Nations gathered world leaders for a first-of-its-kind Climate Ambition Summit to demand that nations stop developing new oil, gas, and coal projects and phase out fossil fuels once and for all. With his recent approvals for mega-polluting fossil fuel projects, President Biden must immediately reverse course to earn his seat at the table. But it will take all of us acting together to make sure that he does!

Thank you for your help!

NYPIRG staff and students collected over 1,000 pieces of litter to help clean up the beach while also filling out a litter survey to help understand what items are being littered the most in our own communities.

NYPIRG and our coalition partners rallied to demand that Mayor Adams fully implements Local Law 97, New York City's Green New Deal for buildings!

As New Yorkers choke on fumes from Canadian wildfires, Mayor Adams is considering weakening enforcement of the City’s landmark climate law at the behest of the big real estate lobby. Local Law 97 is on track to help New York meet its climate goals while creating tens of thousands of good jobs, cleaning our air, and reducing energy bills.

Unfortunately, the real estate lobby is spending big money on a misinformation campaign to gut the law with weak rules that would delay its enforcement and create massive loopholes for building owners to avoid cutting pollution.

This was a crucial time to make our voices heard!

Co-sponsoring organizations included New York Communities for Change, NYPIRG, TREEage, and Food & Water Watch.

After the New York State budget passed – including a huge environmental victory – NYPIRG and our coalition partners held climate action events to keep the momentum going!

Thanks to your support and many others, New York passed a first-in-the nation law requiring new buildings to be built all-electric. This law will cut climate pollution from buildings, save New Yorkers money on utility bills, improve public health, and create new, green jobs.

Now, with the rest of the 2023 state legislative session scheduled to wrap up in early June, we are fighting to improve environmental protection policies to:

• Hold corporate climate polluters accountable.
• Save New Yorkers money.
• Stop the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure.

We held these exciting environmental events to help pass these bills into law:

Tuesday, May 23, 2023: Rally and Lobby Day for NY HEAT Act in Albany

The NY HEAT Act protects New Yorkers from rising energy costs and creates a real plan to replace the gas system with cheaper, cleaner heating and cooling. We held a news conference and lobby day:

• Tuesday, 5/23/2023
• 12 PM
• New York State Capitol Building, 50 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12224

Thursday, May 25, 2023: Regional News Conferences and Rallies for Climate, Jobs & Justice in Albany, the Hudson Valley (virtual), Ithaca, New York City, and Rochester

New York State must pass the Climate, Jobs & Justice Package to rapidly decarbonize New York, make our state healthier and more equitable, ensure a just transition for workers, and create an accessible green economy for all, including passage of the Climate Change Superfund Act to require corporate climate polluters to foot the bill for climate impacts, not taxpayers.

Friday, May 26, 2023: News Conference to Support the Climate Change Superfund Act in New York City

While the oil and gas industry is getting richer on a scale never seen before, the costs to deal with the climate crisis continue to grow. The Climate Change Superfund Act requires the companies most responsible for greenhouse gas emissions to pay for the massive infrastructure improvements and public health protections that the climate crisis demands.

• Friday, 5/26/2023
• 10 AM
• South Street Seaport in Manhattan

Friday, May 26, 2023: News Conference to Support the NY HEAT Act in Syracuse

We held a news conference with local elected officials for the NY HEAT Act:

• Friday, 5/26/2023
• 10:30 AM
• Outside of the State Office Building, 333 East Washington Street, Syracuse, NY 13202

Thank you for your help!

NYPIRG – along with our coalition partners and college students – rallied to tell Mayor Adams NO CUTS TO CUNY!!! Students need more advisors, mental health services, full-time professors, opportunity programs, and free in-state tuition! No more band-aids and budget cuts!

NYPIRG and Beyond Plastics, in coalition with dozens of other organizations, gathered at the New York State Capitol for a rally and advocacy day to push for the passage of the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act (A5322/S4246) and the Bigger Better Bottle Bill (A6353/S237).

NYPIRG and our coalition partners lined the halls in Albany to tell the Legislature that we need to KICK FOSSIL FUELS OUT OF BUILDINGS!

The fossil fuel industry is flooding the airwaves and social media with ads full of disinformation meant to scare people from taking climate action. The truth is that fossil fuel use in buildings is getting more costly for our pocketbooks, our health, and for the planet. NYPIRG pushed the Legislature to enact vital new laws to save New Yorkers money, fight childhood asthma, create jobs in clean energy, and slash climate emissions.

NYPIRG's, the NY Renews coalition, and youth from across the state came together for lobby visits, a rally, and a training in support of the Climate, Jobs & Justice Package, which would make New York State healthier and more equitable, ensure a just transition for workers, and help create a clean-energy economy for all.

On Friday, September 23, NYPIRG – along with Donald Ross’s family, friends, and colleagues – held an event to celebrate his amazing life. It was a great success, and we had a fantastic time proudly honoring Donald, NYPIRG’s first executive director and a true champion for the public interest. We are pleased to share this event program video featuring the lineup of guest speakers and the tribute video that highlighted Donald’s lifetime of hard, visionary work and the incredible, lasting impact that he had on so many.

Special thanks to everyone who was a part of this wonderful celebration!