Here in New York, dozens of climate activists on Tuesday kicked off three days of peaceful actions at the state Capitol in Albany as they continue to demand Governor Kathy Hochul sign legislation to combat the climate crisis. The bill, named the Climate Change Superfund Act, would require large fossil fuel companies to pay $75 billion over 25 years for climate damage repair, resilience and protection programs. This is one of the activists who participated in a sit-in yesterday.

Helen Mancini: “We’re heading into a presidential administration that will do everything in their power to roll back any progress that we’ve made on climate and continue America’s track of being the biggest expander of fossil fuels in the world. Shame! This is why, more than ever, we need state leadership. But these final weeks are an opportunity for our governor to make a commitment to our generation, to establish a new model for how we deal with climate disasters that makes polluters pay and not taxpayers.”