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Press Clips

New York Amsterdam News - Op-Ed: Mayor Adams must see the bigger picture for students & climate

CBS NY - NYC law requiring solar panels in public buildings goes into effect

WNYC, The Brian Lehrer Show - School Buildings and Climate Goals

New York Daily News - Climate Week and New York: The People's Climate March, 10 Years Later

City Limits - Opinion: Another Superstorm Sandy Would be an Economic Disaster for Working Families

NY Daily News - NYC’s schools must not add to orange, smoky air

​NY Amsterdam News - Taking the temperature: Mayor Adams’ new climate budgeting process

​City and State NY - Exclusive: Environmental, labor groups call for more climate funding in city budget

CBS 2 NY - Organizations across New York City studying climate change's varying effects on different communities

Prism - NYC climate activists say the city isn’t doing enough to fight for green schools

City Limits - How Climate Change is Hitting NYC Public Schools 

Gotham Gazette - Creating Green, Healthy New York City Schools as They Fully Reopen

Spectrum News NY1 - Advocates push mayoral candidates to address climate crisis

The Real Deal - Landlords' building emissions workaround is dead

AM NY - Unions help create vision of a greener post-pandemic job market for New York

PIX 11 - ‘Green New Deal’ for NYC is unveiled, but will

its price tag prevent it from becoming reality?

Gotham Gazette - For Next Steps in City's 'Green New Deal' and Covid Recovery, Coalition Offers Plan for 100,000 Climate Jobs 

NY Daily News - City Comptroller Scott Stringer calls on de Blasio to commit $1 billion per year to energy efficiency

Pacific Standard - New York City's 'Green New Deal' Shows How Cities Could Deal with Climate Change

Press Releases

3.3.2026 – 75 Climate & Labor Groups Release Letter Demanding Climate Action in the Classroom in NYC

9.3.2025 - New Report: Green, Healthy Schools can Create 321,000 Green Jobs & Cut DOE Energy Costs in Half

9.5.2024 - Back to School: Climate Justice is a Matter of Public Health for Students and Workers

6.6.2024 - On 1-Year Anniversary of Orange, Smoky Skies in NYC, Climate & Labor Coalition Calls for Climate Justice in Public Schools

5.29.2024 - Climate & Labor Coalition Condemns Attempts to Weaken Critical Climate Law, Local Law 97

5.15.2024 - 13 NYC Council Members Join 40 Climate & Labor Orgs in Call to Make Climate a City Budget Priority

4.24.2024 - Climate Works for All to Mayor Adams: A Safe and Livable NYC Centers Climate Justice

4.15.2024 - 35+ Climate, Labor, Environmental Justice, Youth, and Parent Orgs Release Sign-On Letter Pushing City to Delivery on Promises and Make Climate a Budget Priority

3.13.24 - Climate Advocates Recognize Increased Support to Implement Local Law 97

1.16.24 - Eric Adams Gets a Failing Grade for Protecting Students from the Climate Crisis

12.5.23 - Responding to Mayor Adams’ Drastic Budget Cuts to NYC Schools,Students, Teachers, Parents, Labor, & Environmental Justice orgs Launch Campaign for Green, Healthy School

10.24.23 - Climate Works for All Calls on Administration to Enforce Local Law 97

9.12.23 - Climate Advocates to Mayor Adams: No Urgency or Transparency on Local Law 97

​11.14.22 - Climate Works for All Calls for Stronger Rules and Equitable Implementation of Local Law 97