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Candidates Forum on the Environment

August 12, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTAL CANDIDATES FORUM

FOR CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 17 (CD17) DEMOCRATIC PARTY CANDIDATES

CO-SPONSORED BY 15+ LOCAL AND REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS

Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIuc-6orTwqE9Z3rchx2EAYJhfZc8Wc52YT

Join a coalition of 15+ dozen local and regional environmental and social justice groups who will press Democratic Party candidates in Congressional District 17 (CD17) for answers about their plans to address urgent environmental issues facing the district and nation in an Candidates Environmental Forum, Friday, August 12, 2022 at 7 p.m., held on ZOOM.

New York State Senator Alessandra Biaggi will attend, and Congress member Sean Patrick Maloney, who is unable to attend, has been invited to send a representative to answer questions and/or submit written answers to important questions.

In addition to the candidates’ environmental legislative record, issues expected to be discussed include: climate change, the “No Fossil Fuel” campaign contributions pledge, legislative solutions to the recent Supreme Court decision about the EPA, the decommissioning of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, the Green New Deal, and renewable energy industries and incentives.

The forum is being co-sponsored by grassroots organizations from Westchester and Rockland Counties: CCoHope Indivisible, CD17 Indivisible, Food and Water Action, Grassroots Environmental Education, Green Yorktown, Healing and Protecting Our Land Together – A Call To Prayer, Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition (IPSEC), 350 NJ-Rockland, Rockland Coalition to End the New Jim Crow, Safe Energy Rights Group (SEnRG), Sierra Club Lower Hudson Group, Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion (SAPE), Westchester Alliance for Sustainable Solutions (WASS), Westchester for Change, United for Clean Energy aka Stony Point Center Convergence, and WESPAC among others.

The forum will be moderated by local activist Courtney M. Williams, PhD, cofounder of Safe Energy Rights Group (SEnRG).

The event will use CLOSED CAPTIONING on ZOOM.

WHO:       Democratic candidates for Congressional District 17

WHAT:     CD17 Democratic Party Candidates Environmental Forum

WHEN:     Friday, August 12, 2022, 7 PM

WHERE: ZOOM: Pre-register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIuc-6orTwqE9Z3rchx2EAYJhfZc8Wc52YT

Details

Date:
August 12, 2022
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm