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September 3, 2024
Indy Radio Hour: The Renewable Energy Revolution!
August 27, 2024
Release: Climate Activists Utilize Video Portal Installation to Bridge NYC and Dublin's Opposition to Fracking and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
August 26, 2024
The Irish Mirror: Dublin-New York portal used for transatlantic protest against LNG
August 21, 2024
The Brooklyn Downtown Star: National Grid Gets “OK” from PSC on Rate Hike, Sparking Protests From Activists, Politicians
August 19, 2024
City Limits: National Grid is About to Raise Your Gas Bill to Cover $5 Billion in Infrastructure Projects
August 15, 2024
Release: Elected Officials and NY Residents Rally Against Utility Injustice: "We Won’t Pay to be Poisoned!" - VIDEO
August 7, 2024
New York Focus: New York’s Energy Transition Faces a Staffing Shortage
August 4, 2024
New York Daily News: Weighing N.Y.’s climate statute: Getting to affordable, clean energy solutions
July 17, 2024
Harlem World: Harlem Demands Climate Action: Leaders Face Heat At Accountability Forum
July 5, 2024
News 10 ABC: New York may miss 70% renewable electricity goal of 2030: draft report
June 5, 2024
Release: Greenpoint Residents Proclaim “We Won’t Pay To Be Poisoned! Pass the NY HEAT Act!”
Greenpoint Star: “We Won’t Pay to be Poisoned” Rally to Shut Down National Grid at Defunct Baseball Field
June 4, 2024
Indy Radio Hour: Kim Fraczek of Sane Energy talks about the NY HEAT Act, the “We Won’t Pay to Be Poisoned” campaign, and National Grid
May 20, 2024
Release: National Grid Customers from NYC and Long Island Flood Albany With Thousands of Comments, Urging Regulators to Halt Multi-Billion-Dollar Fracked Gas Expansion and Rate Hike Proposal
May 16, 2024
Yahoo Finance: Williams (WMB) Abandons NESE Project Over Environmental Dispute
May 14, 2024
The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis: Williams throws in towel on NESE pipeline project
May 12, 2024
New York Times: How 5 N.Y.C. Neighborhoods Are Struggling With Climate Change
April 25, 2024
Release: Radioactivity and Toxicity in NYC’S Gas Distribution System
April 23, 2024
Release: Climate Alert: New York’s 'Big Ugly' Budget
April 10, 2024
BKReader: National Grid: The Financial Vampire Sucking Consumers and the Environment Dry
April 5, 2024
The Indypendent: How Can We Stop National Grid from Using Our Money to Poison Us?
March 18, 2024
Release: Activists Take Stand Against National Grid's Rate Hikes and New York State Leaders’ Climate Inaction
January 22, 2024
New York Focus: Hochul Is Ready to Start Weaning New York Off Gas
January 18, 2024
PIX11: National Grid proposed price hike could raise utility bills by $300 yearly
January 17, 2024
News12 Brooklyn: Concerned Greenpoint residents fighting to shut down National Grid’s local center by 2030
Release: Activists and Elected Officials Will Gather in Greenpoint to Talk About Shocking Proposed Price Hikes from National Grid
January 9, 2024
In These Times: This Emerging Green Technology Could Decarbonize Buildings and Provide Good Union Jobs
December 6, 2023
Gothamist: National Grid customers in NY would see $30 higher monthly bills under proposed rate hike
December 1, 2023
News12 Brooklyn: National Grid proposes bill hike that would impact New Yorkers
The New Republic: Renewables Projects Are Failing. Can New York Buck the Trend?
November 28, 2023
Brooklyn Paper: ‘The public doesn’t want it’: Brooklynites oppose National Grid proposal to hike bills by $30 per month
Release: Green New York Begins: New Yorkers & Electeds Launch “Biggest Public Clean Energy Buildout in History”
June 6, 2023
Release: Renewable Heat Now Celebrates NY State Senate Passing NY HEAT ActAs Senate Leads on Lower Energy Bills, All Eyes On Assembly & Governor
May 1, 2023
Release: Community and Advocates Respond to National Grid’s “Ruthless” Request to Raise Gas Bills to Fund More Fracked Gas Infrastructure, Call on Albany to Pass NY HEAT Act
April 4, 2023
Release: Amidst Industry Effort to Gut New York Climate Law, New Yorkers Demand Governor Hochul and DEC Deny “Iroquois” Fracked Gas Pipeline Expansion Proposal
March 31, 2023
Comment Submission Sane Energy Project’s Comment in response to the Public Service Commission’s directive in the Order on Developing Thermal Energy Networks Pursuant to the Utility Thermal Energy Network and Jobs Act (UTENJA)
December 30, 2022
Letter to the Governor: Sane Energy calls on Governor Hochul and Commissioners Christian and Seggos to ensure that we retire, not replace or expand, fracked gas infrastructure.
December 14, 2022
Release: Report finds National Grid’s Greenpoint LNG project would pose significant risks to already overburdened communities in North Brooklyn
December 14, 2022
Report: Cumulative Impact Assessment of the Vaporizers 13 & 14 and the North Brooklyn Pipeline
December 14, 2022
Comment: Sane Energy and Alliance for a Green Economy’s Comment on National Grid’s Proposed LNG Vaporizers
November 14, 2022
Release: The Other End of the Pipeline - Heartbreaking Documentary Series Makes the Connection Between Communities Harmed By Fracked Gas in Rural Pennsylvania and New York City
September 22, 2022
Release: Community members pack public hearing in Brooklyn to speak out against National Grid’s proposal to raise bills for new LNG Vaporizers
June 30, 2022
Sane Energy Statement on SCOTUS ruling in EPA v. West Virginia
March 24th, 2020
Coronavirus: Construction worker tests positive, but North Brooklyn Pipeline proceeds
March 9th, 2020
National Grid holds first public meeting on gas supply options
March 5th, 2020
Not Digging It: Unpopular Pipeline Sparks North Brooklyn Ire
February 28th, 2020
Police Arrest Ten Protestors on Friday as Pipeline Action Continues
August 9th, 2019
The Indypendent: It Was Slated to be a Natural Gas Terminal, Then Environmentalists Raised their Voices
September 9th, 2019
Inside Climate News: After State Rejects Gas Pipeline Permit, Utility Pushes Back. One Result: New Buildings Go Electric.
July 16th, 2019
The Wave: Stirring Up Debate On Natural Gas
September 9th, 2019
Financial Times: National Grid and NY tussle over energy supplies
August 8th, 2019
Newsday: National Grid takes campaign for gas to radio
March 25th, 2019
am New York: New York Harbor pipeline fight escalates as feds near approval deadline
April 24th, 2019
am New York: Stop Williams Pipeline: Pols, activists urge Guv
April 25th, 2019
The Wave: Protestors Urge Cuomo To Deny Pipeline
October 2nd, 2019
Newsday: Senators urge ‘conditional’ approval of gas pipeline
October 3rd, 2019
The Wave: A Sane Plan
October 4th, 2019
Anti-Pipeline Activists Show What New York Stands to Lose
September 25th, 2019
DeSmog: Another Virtual Pipeline Truck Carrying Fracked Gas Crashes in New York. Local Climate Advocates Demand Urgent Action
April 19, 2019
Fios1 - City Council Hearing on Williams NESE Pipeline
May 13, 2019
Protesters Want More Renewable Energy, Less Natural Gas
September 19, 2019
Local students set to strike for climate action
February 21, 2019
Planned Billion-Dollar Natural Gas Pipeline Draws Criticism From Activists
February 27, 2019
Why a Pipeline Battle is Growing in Brooklyn
August 7, 2019
Williams Pipeline battle continues: What to know about the proposed natural gas conduit
April 22, 2019
Piping hot: Protesters demand Cuomo reject pipeline off Coney Island coast
May 13, 2019
Groups against new gas pipelines protest in Albany
May 16, 2019
New York’s Williams Pipeline is denied (but not dead)
May 16, 2019
A Defeat for Frackers
September 20, 2019
Public Awareness/Action Drives Responses To Climate Change