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While we hope you are taking some time this month to relax and recharge, we do have a couple events this month we hope you can join us at:

• En Agosto 16 Clean Air will be supporting the Buffalo United Day of International Friendship at Beaver Island State Park
• En Agosto 27 we are having our next New Member Orientation, pulse aquí para registrarse

Looking further ahead, we also have several save the dates for September:

• On September 1, we will be participating in the Labor Day Parade, contact Chris or other staff if you’d like to march with us
• September 4 – Reunión de la comunidad anual de Tonawanda de Clean Air
• September 10 – Taller de Cataratas del Niágara
• September 21 – Sun Day
• September 24 – La próxima Asamblea General de Clean Air

There are also several public comment periods that are currently open on NY’s energy policy which will will be concluding at the end of September – be sure to scroll down for our one-click toolkits, and stay tuned!

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

Over the past five years, Clean Air has been leading the growing opposition to the use of fossil fuel power for unregulated data center operations, particularly proof-of-work based cryptocurrency mining and certain artificial intelligence uses which kill jobs and are not in the public interest.

This month that work came to the forefront of public discourse, como President Trump signed a number of bills and measures into law cual explicitly double down on the use of fossil fuels to power data centers. Among the many harms, these moves will spike energy prices, cual threatens the US manufacturing sector. Clean Air joined the People’s AI Action Plan sign-on in response to the Trump Administration’s actions.

Mas cerca de casa, we are happy to note that resident organizing action in North Tonawanda has led to Digihost being issued multiple noise violations, y terminado 30 comments were submitted to the Public Service Commission last month in opposition to the sale of the Fortistar gas power plant, which the PSC has been ordered to reconsider in part due to Clean Air member organizing.

As these legal processes proceed, we have a few actions you can take to voice your opposition to fossil fuel power for unregulated data center operations.

primero, New York DEC recently released la Draft Generic Environmental Impact Study of Cryptocurrency Mining, and they are accepting comments through September 25.

You can either directly email your comments to dolimatechange@dec.ny.gov with the subject line “Crypto Draft GEIS” or use our one-click toolkit today.

Segundo, the New York State Energy Planning Board also recently released the Plan de energía estatal. We are still reviewing it, but there are some immediate red flags, notably that the state is projecting a massive energy demand from data center operations, but does not appear to suggest any denials of these power requests, and instead urges “repowering” fossil fuel based energy infrastructure.

The NYEPB is accepting comments through October 6 on the draft plan. Clean Air will be sharing a one-click toolkit from our colleagues at Public Power New York which is currently being developed but is expected to be published this week.

In the short term, please mark the following two dates on your calendar –

September 3 – la Buffalo hearing on the State Energy Plan

September 21 – Sun Day National Mobilization

We are still deciding our exact plan, pero Clean Air will be leading an action for Sun Day as part of a series of events that week to urge our lawmakers in Albany to take the climate crisis and Just Transition seriously. More info coming soon!

If you are a Clean Air member and have a specific idea that you’d like to be considered, por favor contacta con Bridge.

Clean Air joined the Partnership for Public Good earlier this month for the release of a new report on the TESLA plant in South Buffalo, and joined PPG’s call on our elected leaders to open the facility lease to an RFP process to ensure that TESLA is the best tenant for the site.

Read the report by clicking here.

Clean Air urges contacting Town of Tonawanda representatives, PUNTO DEL ESTADO DE NUEVA YORK, GBNRTC, and other relevant entities to voice your support for bike lanes, especially separated bike lanes, in the Town.

Proposed bike lanes on Colvin have been postponed, and while DOT has recently added bike lanes on Sheridan, which does improve upon the prior conditions, they chose not to include separators, which would make these new lanes much safer.

The Tonawanda Tomorrow plan specifically calls for bike and pedestrian improvements across the town, and these projects align with those goals, but if officials only hear from those in opposition, these projects will be considered failures, and these goals will be set aside in favor of other priorities.

We also urge attending the NFTA hearing on August 19 from 6-8pm at Sweet Home Middle School, 4150 Maple Rd in Amherst,, for the recently released Metro Rail Draft Environmental Impact Study.

Like the bike and pedestrian improvements mentioned above, NFTA enhancements are supported in the Tonawanda Tomorrow plan, and Clean Air specifically urges implementing stronger east-west bus connectivity from the proposed Metro expansion area to the waterfront.

Nuestro 2025 High Road Fellow Rebecca Nezezon concluded her summer fellowship last week. We’re grateful for her time with us, and look forward to seeing her next steps as she finishes her classwork at Cornell.

Clean Air is part of Smart Growth America’s 2025 Zoning for Equitable Solutions and Thriving Communities Cohort. ZEST empowers community-based organizations to tackle health inequities by providing education and capacity-building support to reform local land-use policies and strengthen community health. Through this program we will continue to explore ideas to codify environmental justice into zoning codes regionally – learn more here.

Members of the Buffalo United Coalition are holding a rally on August 16 at 4pm at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island for the International Day of Friendship for crossborder solidarity against fascism and authoritarianism. Learn more by clicking here or by visiting the evento en facebook.

Folks are encouraged to speak out against the STAMP project by signing these two petitions –

Protect Tonawanda Seneca Nation’s drinking water! No Trench Cutting at STAMP

Mantener la soberanía de la nación Seneca de Tonawanda y el CLCPA! No hay nuevos fondos o permisos de NYS para el sello WNY.

Our congratulations to our friend Denise Abbott, who just became the first woman President of The Western New York AFL-CIO Area Labor Federation!

A few headlines of note from Labor Notes from this month –

Fight for Immigrant Workers.
Build the Union.

Environmental Protection Agency Workers Investigated for Defending Its Mission

Confront or Cave? Federal Pressure Splits the Building Trades

Organizers across New York State are celebrating the finalization of rules for implementing the All Electric Buildings Act – learn more about this legislation on the NYS Assembly’s webpage.

Organizers just across the border in Toronto are celebrating two big public transit and active mobility wins – the City Council voted to approve dedicated transit lanes on Bathurst and Dufferin streets, y Canadian courts ruled against the Ontario government’s attempt to remove bike lanes in Toronto.

Globally, the UN’s top court ruled that failing to protect planet from climate change could violate international law, a major win that environmental and climate justice organizers around the world can build off of.

Bill McKibben this month published a column in The New Yorker which runs through a few statistics about the renewable energy revolution, and how even amid the Trump administration’s attacks, solar and wind are continuing to dominate.

Here’s one highlight passage- “It took from the invention of the photovoltaic solar cell, en 1954, until 2022 for the world to install a terawatt of solar power; the second terawatt came just two years later, and the third will arrive either later this year or early next.”
Click here to read more.

Brownfield Project Updates

Búfalo – North Aud Block Site Cleanup Proposed for Brownfield Site Contamination, comments due August 9

Búfalo – 1318 Niagara Street Notice of Availability: Explanation of Significant Difference, comments due August 9

Búfalo – 47 East Amherst Cleanup Proposed for Brownfield Site Contamination, comments due August 15

Búfalo – Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP) application for Central Terminal Restoration Corp, comments due August 29

Tonawanda – Huntley Interim Remedial Measure to Begin

Environmental Permit Updates

Tonawanda – Dupont SPDES permit modification and renewal, comments due August 8

Cataratas del Niágara – Durez hazardous waste management permit renewal, comments due September 8

NYSERDA – Low-to Moderate- Income (LMI) Energy Efficiency and Building Electrification Stakeholder Conferences

News from DC on rollbacks of public health, workplace safety, and environmental regulations continues.

Here’s a round up of a few headlines from just this month alone –

EPA Eliminating the “Endangerment” Finding

• Why the EPA’s Endangerment Finding Matters
• Trump’s EPA is attacking its own power to fight climate change

This EPA research office safeguarded Americans’ health. Trump just eliminated it.

White House exempts chemical plants from Clean Air Act rules

Trump’s environmental policies are reshaping everyday life. Here’s how.

They lost their jobs and funding under Trump. What did communities lose?

Antonia Juhasz, Piedra rodante – Every Dirty Gift Trump’s Big Bill Gives the Fossil Fuel Industry

Damian Carrington, el guardián – ‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse

Colin Kinniburgh, NYS Focus – The Race to Build Solar and Wind Before Trump’s Tax Credit Deadline

Yessenia Funes, Atmos and Heated – Fossil Fuel Billionaires Are Bankrolling the Anti-Trans Movement

Noticias internas sobre el clima

• Audrey Gray – Out in the Storm: LGBTQ+ Americans are organizing disaster protection for each other as political weather worsens
• Lee Hedgepeth and Lanier Isom – Fact-Checking Claims About a Proposed Hyperscale Data Center
• Kiley Bense – As Trump Shrinks FEMA, State and Local Emergency Managers Say They’re Barely Getting By

El Buffalo News

• Mackenzie Shuman – Federal government cuts key funding to extreme weather preparedness work in NY
• Mackenzie Shuman – Major demolition at West Valley complete, with many years and $3 billion to go

La combinación energética

• Seth Borenstein – Oil and Gas ‘Running Out of Road’ as Renewables Cover 92.5% of New Power Demand
• Kelly Geraldine Malone – NOT SATIRE: U.S. Politicians Say Wildfire Smoke is Ruining Americans’ Summers, Demand Canada Stop It

Revista Grist

• Ayurella Horn-Muller – The USDA announced the cancellation of $148M in ‘woke’ grants. Then it went dark.
• Miacel Spotted Elk – Data centers, drought, and dispossession: The real nightmares in Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’

Eventos CACWNY

• August 16 – Buffalo United Day of International Friendship

• August 27 – New Member Orientation

• September 1 – Buffalo Labor Day Parade

• September 4 – Reunión comunitaria de Tonawanda

• September 10 – Taller de Cataratas del Niágara

• September 21 – Sun Day Buffalo Action, more info at https://www.sunday.earth/

• September 24 – Clean Air General Meeting, Más información TBA

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., y numerosas capacitaciones en línea próximas este mes!
• 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 –

• August 14 – From Brownfield to Bright Future: Telling Your Success Story
• August 21 – Built By Us: How Nonprofits Can Lead the Charge in Local Development
• August 25 – 26 – Peoples Action Institute Fundamentals of Organizing

Eventos comunitarios y de coalición

• August 29 – Queen City Clean Waters Fair
• September 19 – 20 – Igniting Hope Conference
• September 23 – SURJ Buffalo Mass Meeting

Plazos para comentarios públicos y audiencias

• August 19 – NFTA Metro Rail DGEIS Hearing
• September 3 – Audiencia de búfalo del plan de energía estatal
• September 25 – Comments due on Cryptocurrency Mining DGEIS,
  • Submit a comment now using Clean Air’s digital action!
• Octubre 6 – Comments due on Plan de energía estatal

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.

Interesado en conectarse con CACWNY en general como organización., tener una campaña o problema emergente que desee que CACWNY considere, 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, Nuestro trabajo para regular la minería de criptomonedas, Nuestro trabajo de democracia energética, 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, incluyendo nuestro equipo de respuesta rápida?

¿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.?