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  • Putting out the Planetary Fire
    • Introduction
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      • State’s Proposed $150 Million Annual Subsidy for Renewables Far Short of Dealing with Climate Change Crisis
      • NYS Energy Plan Must End Fossil Fuel Era
      • Cuomo’s State Energy Master Plan is Only Half Way There on Renewables
      • Cuomo Wrong on Global Warming Limits, National carbon markets
      • NY Needs to End Addiction to Fossil Fuels, Support Off-Shore Wind
      • Cuomo should subsidize wind, not nukes
      • Paris Treaty Highlights Need for NY to Increase Climate Goals
      • Cuomo Urged to Be Climate Leader
      • Cuomo’s Keystone Moment – Constitution, Pipelines
      • Increase State Funding for Renewable Energy, Just Transtion
      • Feds Action on LI Wind Highlights Need for NYS to Commit to Purchase
      • Climate Activists Applaud Assembly Support for 100% Clean Energy by 2030
      • Greens Says NY Must Speed Up the Transition to 100% Clean, Renewable Energy
      • Senate Committee to Vote on April 11 on Divesting State pension fund from Fossil Fuels
      • GELF Response to Trump Opposition to Paris Climate Treaty
      • Cuomo 100% renewables
      • 100% clean energy 2030, off fossil fuels
      • New York Must Commit to 100% Clean Energy by 2030 – a Green New Deal
      • Cuomo Should Declare Climate Emergency
      • Overview NYS Climate Legislation 2019
      • NY Needs to Adopt 100% clean energy by 2030
      • Comptroller Decarbonization Report Provides Justification for Divestment
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      • Urge Cuomo to Veto Pt. Ambrose, Support Off-Shore Wind
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      • Update Nov 4 2015
      • Oct. 20 2015 Update
      • Oct. 8 2015 update
      • Oct. 8 Update
      • Sept. 17 Update
      • August 31 2015 Update
      • Update Dec 15 2015. Jan. 13 State of the Climate
      • Jan. 19 2016 Update – climate gas tax
      • Feb. 26 2016 – Divest, Solar, wind
      • March 3 Update – Budget letter, Wind, Pipeline fights, divesment
      • Update – March 23 – 100% renew in As. budget; lobby day
      • Update April 1, 2016
      • April 29. 2016 – CES Talking Point, May 14 Break Free
      • Update Nov 23 2016 – carbon tax, nuke subsidy, offshore wind
      • Update Dec. 17 2016
      • Jan. 26 Update: Local Lobby Visits, NYC Pension Funds
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Protecting Israel Means Demanding Justice for Palestinians

December 1, 2023 by Mark Dunlea

by Mark Dunlea I was someone who was raised to defend the right of Israel to exist, as a minimalist penance for the world’s failure to halt the Holocaust. As a draftable teenager, I was prepared to go to jail for refusing to fight the immoral war in Vietnam, since I would not apply for … Read more…

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Declaration of Independence from Fossil Fuels

July 3, 2023July 3, 2023 by Mark Dunlea

July 4, 2023 Putting Out the Planetary Fire When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary to act on global warming and dissolve our dependence on fossil fuels, a decent respect to the opinions of others requires that we should declare the causes which impel us to the dissolution. We hold these truths … Read more…

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Lack of Climate Action by NY Lawmakers a Death Warrant for Humanity

June 9, 2023June 9, 2023 by Mark Dunlea

Statement of Green Education and Legal Fund on the Lack of Climate Action by NYS Lawmakers By Mark Dunlea, author of Putting out the Planetary Fires 518 860-3725, dunleamark@aol.com, www.gelfny.org Lack of Climate Action by NY Lawmakers a Death Warrant for Humanity Even as tens of millions of New Yorkers and other East Coast residents face a … Read more…

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Make NY’s Carbon Pricing a Cap-Penalize-Rebate-and-Invest Program

January 8, 2023January 8, 2023 by Mark Dunlea

by Mark Dunlea, Green Education and Legal Fund One of the many shortcomings of the Hochul administration’s climate scoping document is its failure to detail how much funding is needed, and by when, to implement that state’s transition to a clean energy future. However, at the last minute, the administration inserted a call for carbon … Read more…

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