PRESS
For immediate information about our campaigns, please email our Director, kim@saneenergy.org or press representative David Corbin, dcorbin@fenton.com
April 4, 2025
Substack: National Grid, What Are You Hiding?
April 2, 2025
Gothamist: ConEd Critics Zero In On Utility Profits As Proposed Rate Hikes Sparks Affordability Fears
March 31, 2025
Greenpointers: Environmental Advocates Call For More Transparency As State Agency Weighs Decision To Shut Down National Grid Facility In Greenpoint
March 27, 2025
Substack: Transparency Or Cover Up?
March 26, 2025
Greenpoint Star: Local Org Alleges Unfair Practices in National Grid Case
March 26, 2025
S&P Capital IQ: NY Private Developers Push Back Against Calls for Utility Owned Generation
March 20, 2025
Substack: Things are NYHEATing Up In Albany
March 12, 2025
Substack: Hop On The Bus To Albany To Pass The NY HEAT Act
March 7, 2025
Substack: Sane Energy- Bringing the Solutions!
February 27, 2025
Law360: National Grid Sued Over Rent, Radioactive Waste Disclosures (read legal filing here)
February 26, 2025
Substack: Resist the EVIL Empire with Creativity and Community
February 25, 2025
Sen. Kavanaugh: ConEd Customers, Lawmakers Slam New Rate Hikes, Demand Legislature Pass NYHEAT Act to Protect NYers from $300/Month Bill
February 20, 2025
Substack: We SHUT DOWN the PSC meeting: New York Wants Renewables!
February 18, 2025
Politico Weekly New York & New Jersey Energy: Climate Collision
February 16, 2025
NYPost: Hochul Approves More Natural Gas Pumping to Meet Cold Weather Demand Despite NY’s Green Push- and ConEd’s Proposed Hikes
February 14, 2025
Brooklyn Eagle: Democratic Mayoral Candidates Tackle Climate Issues At Forum
February 13, 2025
Release: New Yorkers Disrupt State Commission Meeting, Slam Hochul for Pipeline Approval
February 13, 2025
Substack: Governor Hochul Betrays New Yorkers, Approves “Iriquois” Pipeline Expansion
February 11, 2025
Release: Sane Energy to Hochul: Enough talk. It’s time for action on corporate utility greed.
February 8, 2025
amNew York: NYC Mayoral Race: Climate Change, Adams’ ICE Policies Top Democratic Primary Challengers Debate
February 7, 2025
Inside Climate News: New York Mayoral Candidates All Strut Their Green Credentials
February 7, 2025
Release: Sane Energy’s Statement on Governor Hochul’s Approval of the Iroquois Pipeline Co. ExC Project
February 6, 2025
Substack: ConEd Price Gouge, Sane Energy Says No!
February 6, 2025
ABC 7 Eyewitness News: ConEd Seeks Approval to Raise Gas, Electric Bills for New York City, Westchester Residents
February 2, 2025
NPR’s Weekend Edition: listen to Kim Fraczek address Con Ed’s proposed rate hikes
February 1, 2025
The Gothamist: Con Ed floats a double-digit hike in NYC's utility rates amid soaring energy costs
January 31, 2025
Substack: All Hands on Deck February 4th in Albany!
January 23, 2025
Substack: Explosion at National Grid’s LNG Facility
January 28, 2025
Statement: Sane Energy Project Urges PSC Chair Rory Christian to Step Up, NYPA CEO Justin Driscoll to Step Down for Bold Transition to Affordable Renewables
January 16, 2025
Substack: State of A Sane New York State
January 14, 2025
Statement: Sane Energy Responds to Governor Hochul’s Climate Record and State of the State Address
January 10, 2025
Substack: As CA Burns, We Take the Fight to National Grid
January 7, 2025
Substack: Rise, Thrive in 2025
October 24, 2024
Substack: Climate Action for Busy People! bzzz
October 3, 2024
Substack: We Are Furious, And We Demand Change
September 10, 2024
Substack: Lets Strengthen Our Roots This Fall
September 5, 2024
Substack: Seize the Moment!
September 4, 2024
Substack: From Dublin to NYC, We Say No to LNG!
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 21, 2024
Substack: Disrupting New York State’s Lovefest With National Grid
August 19, 2024
City Limits: National Grid is About to Raise Your Gas Bill to Cover $5 Billion in Infrastructure Projects
August 15, 2024
Substack: Elected Officials and NY Residents Rally Against Utility Injustice: "We Won’t Pay to be Poisoned!"
August 15, 2024
Release: Elected Officials and NY Residents Rally Against Utility Injustice: "We Won’t Pay to be Poisoned!" - VIDEO
August 14, 2024
Substack: Will New York Choose The People Or National Grid?
August 7, 2024
New York Focus: New York’s Energy Transition Faces a Staffing Shortage
August 7, 2024
Substack: Connecting the Dots. Gas Utilities. Climate Change.
August 6, 2024
Substack: Weighing New York’s Climate Statute: Getting to Affordable, Clean Energy Solutions.
August 4, 2024
New York Daily News: Weighing N.Y.’s climate statute: Getting to affordable, clean energy solutions
August 1, 2024
Substack: Worker Power and Renewable Energy
July 25, 2024
Substack: Showing up for Our Renewable Future
July 17, 2024
Harlem World: Harlem Demands Climate Action: Leaders Face Heat At Accountability Forum
July 17, 2024
Substack: Super Hot, But We Refuse to Melt!
July 10, 2024
Substack: Is Hochul Calling it QUITS on Renewables?
July 5, 2024
News 10 ABC: New York may miss 70% renewable electricity goal of 2030: draft report
June 26, 2024
Substack: Plotting for People Power, One Watt at a Time
June 19, 2024
Substack: Juneteenth Call to Action: Join the Fight for Public Power and Renewable Energy in Puerto Rico
June 12, 2024
Substack: A Setback Not a Surrender: Our Movement Will Rise to the Challenge
June 6, 2024
Substack: Greenpoint Residents Proclaim “We Won’t Pay To Be Poisoned! Pass the NY HEAT Act!”
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 5, 2024
Substack: Friday DEADLINE: Pass the NY HEAT Act
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 29, 2024
Substack: Energy Insurrection is Possible from Puerto Rico to New York State
May 21, 2024
Substack: Kickin’ Fossil Fuels to the Curb!
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 20, 2024
Substack: 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
Substack: Environmental Justice is Economic Justice
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
May 9, 2024
Substack: Our Vision For the Future is Beginning to Shine Through!
May 1, 2024
Substack: Sane Energy’s Source of Sustenance This Week
April 26, 2024
Substack: Radioactivity and Toxicity in NYC’s Gas Distribution System
April 25, 2024
Release: Radioactivity and Toxicity in NYC’S Gas Distribution System
April 24, 2024
Substack: NY HEAT Bill Didn’t Make it, Time to Get Serious
April 23, 2024
Release: Climate Alert: New York’s 'Big Ugly' Budget
April 17, 2024
Substack: Is Governor Hochul Raising Your Utility Bills?
April 10, 2024
BKReader: National Grid: The Financial Vampire Sucking Consumers and the Environment Dry
April 8, 2024
Substack: Don’t Let Mercury Retrograde and a Solar Eclipse Stop Your Activism!
April 5, 2024
The Indypendent: How Can We Stop National Grid from Using Our Money to Poison Us?
April 4, 2024
Substack: It’s Spring Ya’ll’s! Let’s Go!
March 28, 2024
Substack: Take NY HEAT Over the Finish Line!
March 21, 2024
Substack: Activists Take Stand Against National Grid’s Rate Hikes and New York State Leader’s Climate Inaction
March 20, 2024
Substack: Choose Your Adventure to Call for Passage of the NY HEAT Act
March 18, 2024
Release: Activists Take Stand Against National Grid's Rate Hikes and New York State Leaders’ Climate Inaction
March 11, 2024
Letter: Advocate leaders and frontline residents express concern over gas expansion
March 7, 2024
Substack: Four Ways to Demand Clean Energy and Lower Bills with NY HEAT
February 29, 2024
Substack: Public Renewables and the Green New Deal
February 28, 2024
Substack: NY HEAT Update: Climate Leadership, Petition Power, & Events!
February 23, 2024
Substack: Reject National Grid’s $3.8 Billion Hike Proposal for Fossil Fuels
February 21, 2024
Substack: Celebrate Black Leadership in Climate Justice During #BlackClimateWeek
February 15, 2024
Substack: Unveiling the Green Grift of National Grid
February 8, 2024
Substack: Pull Up With Us In the Bronx Tomorrow!
January 31, 2024
Substack: WE SAY NO to National Grid’s Greenwashing
January 25, 2024
Substack: We Brought the HEAT to Albany Tuesday
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
June 28, 2017 New York voters and local farmers disrupt Cricket Valley Power Plant’s breaking-ground ceremony.