Submit Your Comment: Stop the Astoria NRG Power Plant!

Energy company NRG wants to build a new dirty fracked gas power plant on the Astoria waterfront in Queens. The proposed 437-megawatt plant would pollute our air and water and worsen the climate crisis.

The plant would degrade air quality in neighborhoods already ridden with toxic fossil fuel power plants and elevated levels of asthma.

We need renewable energy and good green union jobs for New York, not more reliance on fracked gas.

State regulators are accepting public comments on this project until Monday, September 13 — make sure they hear from you!

Take action below to tell state regulators to stop the proposed Astoria NRG fracked gas power plant and commit to renewables instead.

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Submit Your Comment: Stop the Astoria NRG Power Plant!

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Dear Governor Hochul and the NY Department of Environmental Conservation,

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I am writing to express my opposition to NRG Energy's proposed Astoria fracked gas power plant. Astoria and the surrounding neighborhoods are already plagued by fossil fuel power plants that have caused lower air quality and higher rates of asthma. It is no coincidence that these same neighborhoods were hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic -- a respiratory illness.

Building a new fossil fuel power plant in Astoria would be an affront to the communities struggling to recover from coronavirus, and would also fly in the face of New York's climate goals as set forth by the Climate Leadership Communities Protection Act (CLCPA).

It is imperative that New York reject all fracked gas infrastructure proposals if we have any intention of actually achieving the emission reduction goals set forth by the CLCPA and doing our part to curb the climate crisis. Building a new plant now would contradict the state's climate law and the calls of scientists from all over the world, as well as become a stranded asset for consumers who would foot the bill in their higher utility rates.

Given these concerns, I urge you to deny the permits for the Astoria NRG fracked gas power plant in order to protect New Yorkers' health and climate: 
Article 19 Air Title V Facility (2-6301-00191/00003)
Article 19 Title IV (Phase II Acid Rain) (2-6301-00191/00024)
Article 17 Titles 7 & 8 Industrial SPDES - Surface Discharge - (2-6301-00191/00014)
Article 15 Title 15 Water Withdrawal (2-6301-00191/00026)

Please stop the Astoria NRG fracked gas power plant and set Queens on a path to renewable alternatives instead.

Sincerely,

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