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TUNE IN TODAY – We’re live from the UN Climate Ambition Summit!

Hi all –  Today, march organizers and allies are inside the UN Climate Ambition Summit, where UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is calling on world leaders to commit to ending fossil fuel expansion and develop policies for phase-out. You can tune in for the summit here:10:00 a.m. EDT: Opening 1:15 p.m. EDT: Convening on Loss and...
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(Audio) Activists Shut Down MOMA to Kick Off Fossil Fuel Baron from Board; Sept 17 rally and march at 1 PM. Plus local vigil. If you have friends who are not going into the City, please share these audio clips with them.

Local Vigil at Main and Mamaroneck, Renaissance Fountain.  3 PM to 4 PM.  Thank you Vitalah for organizing this for those of us who can’t make it in to the City. From: ‘dunleamark@aol.com‘ via NYC Grassroots Alliance Momentum is building for Sunday’s September 17 End Fossil Fuel march and rally in NYC which starts at 1...
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9 days til we March! Are you coming? SEPTEMBER 17

Hello Marchers! This is an historic event and requires all hands on deck!  Organizers were talking about tens of thousands in NYC. Given the reports of buses coming in from all over the country, it now looks like it may be more than that. Here is some information about meet up places and a video...
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Earth Matters: Industry pollutes the Hudson River—again

Excellent article on the history of pollution in the Hudson River. Exactly what we were working for when we all came together to stop the dumping of tritiated  water.  Please share with interested others. Marilyn The Hudson River has been used as an industrial sewer for centuries and thus has played a prominent role in...
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CCoHOPE Indivisible: REPORT ON LAWLER TOWN HALL / CLIMATE ACTIONS / POSTCARDS / LTEs / MEET CD17 CANDIDATES and more!

This excellent newsletter speaks to many of the issues we have to prepare for such as the SEPTEMBER 17 NYC DEMONSTRATION. DETAILS BELOW.  ARE YOU READY TO MARCH???  Talk to, not email, people about this crucial demonstration. You can read about Lawler’s town hall and his strategy of using a lottery to select question.  A...
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Opinion: Here’s how we ‘saved the Hudson’

The successful effort to ban nuclear waste discharges from Indian Point holds lessons – and warnings – for the entire state. On Aug. 18, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed Assembly Bill 7208/Senate Bill 6893, colloquially known as the “Save the Hudson” bill, into law. The enactment of this legislation, which I sponsored in the Assembly, followed months...
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State Asked to Study Wastewater Procedures at Indian Pt.

With Gov. Kathy Hochul sign­ing into law a bill that pro­hibits the dump­ing of ra­dioac­tive waste into the Hud­son River, en­vi­ron­men­tal groups and elected of­fi­cials are turn­ing their at­ten­tion to the pos­si­ble harm­ful ef­fects of the toxic dis­charge that has oc­curred for the last 60 years. In an Aug. 23 let­ter to Hochul and var­i­ous state agen­cies,...
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Governor Hochul Signs ‘Save the Hudson’ Bill

ALBANY, N.Y. – Environmental and political folks reacted with relief and gratitude last week after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law a measure that will restrict the dumping of radiological substances into the state’s water bodies. Holtec International, the entity that now owns, and is in charge of decommissioning, Entergy’s former Indian Point Energy Center...
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Texas nuclear waste storage permit invalidated by US appeals court

A U.S. appeals court on Friday canceled a license granted by a federal agency to a company to build a temporary nuclear waste storage facility in western Texas, which the Republican-led state has argued would be dangerous to build in one of the nation’s largest oil basins. A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th...
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Activists: State needs to step up to protect water and air from Indian Point cleanup 

A whistleblower report from a Holtec worker at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Massachusetts released earlier this week is one of the reasons why environmental activists are requesting Governor Hochul and other elected officials to pivot to a state-led waste management process for the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan. During a video...
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Point of Return – Designing new life for buildings at Indian Point

In the idyllic Hudson River Valley, two concrete domes, just barely peeking over the treeline, dot the landscape near a city of 28,000. They belong, as most of the area’s residents know, to the now-decommissioning Indian Point nuclear plant. In theory, the nuclear anxieties around Indian Point could be wiped away once Holtec, the company...
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Update on Nuclear Free Carbon Free HUB at 9-17-23 March to End Fossil Fuels in NYC

This is something we all need to be thinking about as antinuclear activitist.  We just won an important vistory, now it is 11th time to step back and look at the larger picture. Are you planning on going into the City on Sept 17 for this demonstration? Thank you Diane for this well organized way to...
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