Hi {{ Nombre de pila | comúnizar | por defecto: 'Amigo’ }}, it’s been a busy month for community engagement – scroll down to see photos from some of the events we participated in this month, including Buffalo United’s “For Freedom and Liberation” rally we helped plan and run!

We expect this work to continue all this month and into August.
Our Events team and Base Building team will be leading our General Meeting on July 23 en 5:30 – click here to register to join us either in-person or online. Our Tonawanda Team will also be canvassing through September, and you can also catch us at the Burning Books Block Party on July 27th.

You might see our Summer High Road Fellow Rebecca Nezezon at one of these events – she’s lending a hand with some of our research projects this summer as well as with out outreach work. Be sure to say hi!

Also note that there will be some actions this month regarding cryptocurrency mining and data centers, incluso online state hearings starting this Wednesday – scroll down for more details and to sign up.

Con pan y rosas,
Puente, cris, cindy, gia y kiera

EarthJustice won on our behalf in court in November against the Public Service Commission’s decision to approve the sale of the Fortistar gas power plant without taking the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act into account! This means, aunque, that the PSC needs to hear from us that we oppose this sale.

The PSC is accepting comments on this until July 28 – to submit a comment, click here to visit the “Matter Master” page, and click the “Post Comment” button on the upper right. We urge pointing out the enormous energy demand, the lack of job creation, the noise pollution, and the predicted increases in air emissions.

Related, la Draft Generic Environmental Impact Study of cryptocurrency mining has been released! We urge taking a moment to read it by haciendo clic aquí or visiting the DEC’s webpage (scroll down to the “Cryptocurrency Mining Law” header.) Comments are being accepted until September 25 by emailing climatechange@dec.ny.gov. We will be launching a letter campaign his month, and in the meantime we urge attending one of the online hearings this month listed on the DEC’s webpage, including one this Wednesday at 6pm focused on WNY – click here to register by tomorrow Tuesday July 8 at 6pm.

Clean Air members and staff participated in a site tour of Tonawanda Coke this month. The structures on the site have largely been removed, and nature is taking back the site – we saw an osprey carrying a fish from the Niagara River to it’s nest as well as a bunch of froglets.

Thanks to the advocacy and oversight of the Tonawanda Community Working Group, a buffer zone of the entire site will be remediated to “residential” standards. We remain involved in the TCWG as the other parcels approach their own final remediation decisions, and urge an expansion to include the entire River Road corridor, but we are also pivoting our attention to the future use of the site, and oppose the potential use of the site as a data center.

Speaking of other River Road sites, work is beginning to pick up at Huntley – remediation is picking up pace, and one fun tidbit is that there will be fill brought in from the Bills Stadium construction site to replace the contaminated soils being removed.

Finalmente, we have deployed enough PurpleAir monitors throughout the region to begin to notice unusual “pocket” lecturas – this month a member called because of some alarmingly high readings at the Delavan-Grider Community Center’s monitor. Turns out, the Center was running a hot dog cookout! Similarly there were extremely high readings the evening of July 4 across the region, cual, as you would expect, came from community fireworks.

We urge reaching out to Clean Air staff if you do see unusually high readings on any monitors, especially if it’s consistently high, and if you are interested in signing up for a free monitor, please reach out to us today.

Clean Air members in Niagara Falls are working this summer to recruit and build a leadership cohort. To support these members, Clean Air held a Town Hall last month to scope priority issues and bring folks together. This fall, we will begin holding a series of workshops in Niagara Falls to dig into some of the identified issues. Register for the first workshop on September 10 for a reminder by clicking here, y contacto puente to connect with our Niagara Falls leaders.

The People continue to push back on the cuts to EPA programs, including the awarded grant programs. Earlier this month, un federal judge ruled that cuts made to the Thriving Communities programs run by the Green and Healthy Homes Initiative, the Minneapolis Foundation, and Philanthropy Northwest were unlawful! This follows a similar ruling in May which likewise found the termination of awarded funds from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund were unlawful.

This is all very promising news for us as EarthJustice and partners just filed a class action challenge to the termination of the awarded Community Change grants and other environmental justice programs, which we are a subrecipient of – much more to come as this case proceeds!

Clean Air joined a sign on letter with 50 other groups statewide to the NYS DEC calling for inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions of incinerators and other sources. Click here to read the letter.

NYRenews is urging NYSDEC to implement the Cap and Invest program – haga clic aquí para enviar una carta!

On July 24th at 6:30pm, join NY Renews, Aliados de la nación Tonawanda Seneca, and Nation citizens for a virtual screening of the short film “Unheard Voices: The Fight for the Tonawanda Seneca Nation’s Way of Life.” A panel discussion with Nation citizens and Allies of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation will follow.

Seneca and Tuscarora leaders are urging NYS DEC to require a geotechnical analysis at the location of the proposed STAMP wastewater pipeline horizontal directional drilling installation, including test boring at the specific location to determine whether soils there can support HDD without risk of frac-out, as well as halt any construction until all permits and agreements are in place. Click here to send a letter in support!

EarthJustice is urging people to contact EPA Administrator Zeldin to voice objection to the rollback of clean air standards for power plants – click here to send a letter now!

The Buffalo Central Labor Committee’s annual cookout is July 18 – click here to buy a ticket!

The NYS AFLCIO released a statement opposing the “Big Ugly Betrayal” budget bill – click here to read the statement.

Striking REI workers in Durham NC posted this absolute banger picket line song set to the tune of Hot To Go! – well worth taking a minute today to watch!

A UAW member in WNY who survived blood cancer is raising funds to benefit the Lymphoma and Leukemia society – click here to donate.

El Departamento de Conservación Ambiental del Estado de Nueva York (Diciembre), in partnership with the U.S. Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA), today announced a vehicle-based ground-level radiological survey of Erie and Niagara counties will begin the week of July 7, 2025. 

This new ground-level survey will supplement data collected during the first aerial phase of the radiological survey that took place in late 2023 and the summer of 2024, as well as historic surveys from the 1970s and 1980s. Para más información, please refer to the full DEC press release.

El Departamento de Conservación Ambiental del Estado de Nueva York (Diciembre) and Niagara County Soil and Water Conservation District today announced a virtual public meeting from noon to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Julio 8, 2025, to discuss restoration progress in the Eighteenmile Creek Area of Concern (AOC) in Niagara County. The meeting will also offer an opportunity for public input on the proposed removal of the Degradation of Benthos Beneficial Use Impairment (BUI). Benthos are organisms that crawl, burrow, swim, or stay attached to the material on the bottom of a lake or stream.

Comments on the draft report and proposed BUI removal may be made during the meeting, via the AOC website or by email at: eighteenmilerap@gmail.com until July 30, 2025.

Para más información, please refer to the full DEC press release.

In addition to the comment period flagged above concerning the DGEIS for cryptocurrency mining and the Eighteenmile Creek comment period, there are several more pertaining to our membership area and campaign work that we want to flag –

• Roswell Park renewed Air State Facility (PPA) permiso, comments due July 18
• Proposed remedy for the brownfield cleanup at the North Aud Block Site located at 130 Main Street in Buffalo, comments due August 9
• Proposed remedy for the brownfield cleanup at Amherst Commons located at 47 East Amherst Street in Buffalo, comments due August 15
• Amendments to the statewide Environmental Remediation Programs 6 Parte NYCRR 375, ie the state Brownfield Program regulations, comments due October 7. More on this point to come as we review the proposed changes!

The New York State Department of Transportation has released it’s 2050 statewide transportation master plan. There will be two virtual public hearings on July 8 that you can sign up for here, and comments are being collected until July 28 by emailing nystransportationmasterplan@publicinput.com. Para más información, please visit https://www.nystransportationmasterplan.com/

This has been a tough few months, with a number of losses that will continue to cause harm for decades to come – but it’s important to celebrate the acts of resistance and the wins that have come as a result.

Of note this month –

Residents on Buffalo’s West Side are organizing to protect and support an Iranian immigrant

A state administrative judge sided with environmental justice advocates in Niagara County against CWM’s proposed hazardous waste landfill

Farmworkers in Wayne County have won the New York’s first union contract that covers both seasonal guest workers and year-round employees

Mas que 250 EPA employees signed a “Declaration of Dissent”

A coal miner in West Virginia successfully challenged the Trump administration’s attempt to gut the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) offices in Morgantown, W. Va.

While the budget bill is a disastrous and dangerous package which will cause systemic harm, due to the pressure put on the US Senate, two especially egregious provisions were killed – the first would have added excise taxes to renewable energy projects and killed the industry, and the second would have prevented states from regulating Artificial Intelligence, possibly including data centers.

Any ground we can keep is ground we can fight on!

Finalmente, we also wanted to share these reflections from organizers of the 2020 Uprising on lessons learned and advice they have for the moment.

Dylan Baddour and Arcelia Martin, Noticias internas sobre el clima – Data Centers Are Building Their Own Gas Power Plants in Texas

Misti Allison, Akron Beacon Journal – How EPA helped my hometown of East Palestine — and why funding cuts would be dire | Opinion

Isa Domínguez, Politico – Energy powerhouse to Republicans: Don’t ‘take renewables off the table’

James Baratta, The American Prospect – Industry Lobbyists Pitch Driverless ‘Ghost Trains’ Across America

Maxine Joselow, Washington Post – White House proposes shutting down chemical safety agency

Brendan Gibbons, Oil and Gas Watch News – Some U.S. oil refineries are still using WWII-era heaters and boilers, leading to excess pollution

NYS Focus

• Colin Kinniburgh – Hochul Paused Carbon Pricing to Get More Feedback — But Hasn’t Asked for Any
• Colin Kinniburgh – How the Clock Ran Out on One of Albany’s Biggest Environmental Bills
• Clara Hemphill – How Congress is Reversing New York’s Progress on Clean Energy

Canary Media

• Kathryn Krawczyk – The EPA puts toxic power plant emissions back on the table
• Jeff San. John – Trump admin cuts $3.7B for industrial decarbonization and carbon capture
• Jeff San. John – A Michigan coal plant was about to close. Trump ordered it to stay open.
• Jeff San. John – How states can pick up the slack on industrial decarbonization
• Alexander C. Kaufman – Major US steel company backs away from plan to make green steel

Revista Grist

• Joseph Winters – ‘Chilling and dangerous’: Grassroots groups sue over Louisiana law that censors air quality data
• Matt Simon – The smoke from Canada’s wildfires may be even more toxic than usual
• Lisa Sorg – The Supreme Court just blew up a major environmental law
• Joseph Winters – The Supreme Court just ended its term. Here are the decisions that will affect climate policy.

Eventos CACWNY

• July and August Tonawanda canvasses – various evenings on Thursdays and Fridays and Saturdays midday, contact Bridge to sign up

• Julio 23 – Asamblea General de Aire Limpio

• Julio 27 – tabling at Burning Books Block Party

• September 1- Buffalo Labor Day Parade, contact Chris if you’d like to march with Clean Air

• September 10 – Niagara Falls Environmental Justice Workshop

Próximas oportunidades de formación, Conferencias y nuevos recursos

¿Es usted miembro o partidario de Clean Air y participa en una campaña actual?, ¿Existe alguna oportunidad de capacitación que le gustaría aprovechar para fortalecer su capacidad organizativa?? Por favor, infórmaselo a un organizador del personal., mientras elaboramos presupuestos para apoyar el desarrollo del liderazgo! Todos los miembros y simpatizantes de Clean Air también tienen acceso gratuito a capacitaciones del Advocacy Institute.

• ACTUAMOS TCTAC – recursos, Capacitaciones técnicas y políticas a pedido.
• Centro de información de limpieza de sitios contaminados de la EPA – múltiples seminarios web, Grabaciones tanto en vivo como bajo demanda.
• Centro de aprendizaje y capacitación Superfund de la EPA – múltiples seminarios web, tanto en vivo como bajo demanda
  
• Hermanita – grabaciones de seminarios web bajo demanda

Nuevo este mes –

• Starting September 3 – Cooperation Buffalo’s Fellowship Program, applications due August 1

Eventos comunitarios y de coalición

• Various dates and events hosted by Organize for Action WNY
• Every Last Tuesday – heARTburn: monthly civic arts meet-up
• Julio 8 – 169 Allen Street Pocket Park Visioning Workshop
• Julio 18 – Buffalo CLC Annual Cookout
• Julio 19 – Co-op Fest
• Julio 22 – Lecture at Burning Books about Elon Musk and Pronatalism
• July 24th – Virtual screening of the short film “Unheard Voices: The Fight for the Tonawanda Seneca Nation’s Way of Life followed by panel discussion
• Julio 26 – Geology Day tour of Zoar Valley led by Ray Vaughan

Plazos para comentarios públicos y audiencias

• Julio 28 – comments due to the Public Service Commision regarding the proposed sale of the Fortistar gas power plant to Digihost/Digi Power X. To submit a comment, visit the “Matter Master” page and click the “Post Comment” button on the upper right.
• September 25 – comments due regarding the Draft Generic Environmental Impact Study of cryptocurrency mining. Learn more by visiting the DEC’s webpage (scroll down to the “Cryptocurrency Mining Law” header) and submit comments to climatechange@dec.ny.gov.
  • Multiple hearing dates in July, you can sign up for any, must register 24 hours in advance –

    • Finger Lakes – Miércoles, Julio 9 en 2:00 pm, pulse aquí para registrarse

    • Western NY – Miércoles, Julio 9 en 6:00 pm, pulse aquí para registrarse

    • Southern Tier – Miércoles, Julio 16 en 2:00 pm, pulse aquí para registrarse

    • Central NY – Miércoles, Julio 16 en 6:00 pm, pulse aquí para registrarse

    • Mohawk Valley – Martes, Julio 22 en 2:00 pm, pulse aquí para registrarse

    • North Country – Miércoles, Julio 23 en 4:00 pm, pulse aquí para registrarse

    • New York City/Long Island – Miércoles, Julio 30 en 2:00 pm, pulse aquí para registrarse

    • Capital Region/Hudson Valley – Miércoles, Julio 30 en 4:00 pm, pulse aquí para registrarse

• Julio 18 – Roswell Park renewed Air State Facility (PPA) permiso
• Julio 28 – comments regarding the New York State Department of Transportation 2050 statewide transportation master plan due. There will be two virtual public hearings on July 8 that you can sign up for here,
• Julio 30 – comments due regarding the restoration progress in the Eighteenmile Creek Area of Concern (AOC) in Niagara County, virtual meeting on July 8
• August 9 – Proposed remedy for the brownfield cleanup at the North Aud Block Site located at 130 Main Street in Buffalo
• August 15 – Proposed remedy for the brownfield cleanup at Amherst Commons located at 47 East Amherst Street in Buffalo
• Octubre 7 – Amendments to the statewide Environmental Remediation Programs 6 Parte NYCRR 375 (brownfield regulations)

Consulte también nuestra lista de eventos actualizada periódicamente en bit.ly/CleanAirEvents y linktr.ee/cleanairwny

También puedes hacer clic aquí para unirte a la Buffalo Snow Brigade. También sugerimos consultar los recursos en mutualaiddisasterrelief.org así como su nuevo sitio web aliviotoolkit.com. Si está interesado en unirse a esfuerzos de ayuda mutua con Clean Air, particularmente en el ámbito de la resiliencia comunitaria en medio del cambio climático,
por favor contacta con Puente sobre entrenamientos o para Familia sobre nuestros eventos y comité de membresía.

Al menos 70 people are already reported dead from the flooding in Texas. As residents struggle to respond, calls for mutual aid are beginning to pop up on GoFundMe – https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/flood-relief#/

Interesado en conectarse con CACWNY en general como organización., have an emerging campaign or issue you’d like CACWNY to consider, or are you interested in joining our Peabody Street or Lovejoy campaigns?
¿Conoce alguna oportunidad de subvención que pueda respaldar nuestro trabajo??

Interesado en unirse a nuestros equipos de campaña de Transición Justa de Tonawanda, our work to regulate cryptocurrency mining, our Energy Democracy work, o tiene un envío para este boletín mensual?

Interesado en apoyar los esfuerzos de recaudación de fondos de base de Clean Air, o unirse a nuestro comité de eventos o membresía, including our Rapid Response Team?

¿Quiere unirse a nuestra campaña American Axle o apoyar nuestro trabajo en el vecindario Delavan-Grider y el área metropolitana del East Side?, o apoye nuestro trabajo de justicia climática en todo el estado con NYRenews,?

Interesado en donar para apoyar nuestro trabajo.?