New York Must Fund Climate Justice This Year -- Get on the Bus!

As of January 1st, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act is the law in New York. Together, we passed the nation's strongest climate law ⁠— but our work is only just starting.

We're demanding that the legislature and governor fund climate action in this year's budget.
On January 27, we'll be in the state capitol to rally, lobby, and flex our power to demand funding for climate justice. Join us!

What: No Empty Promises: Fund Climate Justice NOW!

When: January 27th, 2020 10:30am

Where: Albany State Capitol

Buses provided from NYC, Buffalo, and Long Island

RSVP Here

This day of action comes after the Governor's State and the State and will be critical for centering Climate Justice in this year's budget. We need all of us to show up and demand Climate Justice! If you haven't lobbied before, don't worry. NY Renews will provide training, transportation, and lunch.

RSVP now to join us on January 27th! This is our first Albany day of action since the CCPA fight. 

Let's show that we still won't stand for empty promises. We need Climate Justice NOW!

350.org is a global movement that fights for a just and equitable world by stopping the fossil fuel industry from continuing to destroy our climate.

Environmental Group to hold Public Event for Endorsed Political Candidates

Sierra Club Niagara Group is holding an Endorsed Challengers Meet & Greet Rally which will be FREE and OPEN to the general public.

The Meet & Greet Rally is an opportunity to hear each candidate briefly describe their platform and views on a variety of environmental topics.

Candidates to be featured at the Rally, along with the offices they are seeking, are shown below:

The Rally will be held on Friday, October 12, 5 PM - 7 PM, at UAW Region 9 Hall, 35 George Carl Boulevard, just off Wehrle Drive near Transit Rd. [Map]

Food & Drink will be provided

This will be one of the most important elections of our time. Control of the U.S. House of Representatives and the New York State Senate is up for grabs. 

We need to elect strong leaders who will stand up for the people and for justice, who will fight to cut pollution and protect public health, and who will help create new, well-paying jobs in a clean energy economy.

RALLY: Support Senator Schumer in Resisting Trump's Dangerous Agenda

RALLY In front of Senator Schumer’s Office
Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 12:00pm
130 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo 

Trump's Agenda is a Danger to 
Our Environment and Communities!

His administration of corporate cronies will protect elite interests while threatening our water, air, and food, undermining civil rights, and risking climate chaos.

On February 2, New Yorkers will rally at Senator Schumer’s offices across the state urging him to resist Trump’s agenda!

As the nation’s top Democrat, Senator Chuck Schumer must continue to stand strong against Trump’s catastrophic Cabinet appointments and his climate-destroying plans. 

 
Let’s show our Senator he has 

strong support in Western New York! 


Join Sierra Club, Climate Justice Coalition of WNY, PUSH Buffalo, 350.0rg, Food and Water Watch, WNY Peace Center, NYPIRG and many others

Questions? Email david.alicea@sierraclub.org

Rally Outside Cuomo's UB Speech to Stop the Fracked Gas Pipeline

RALLY outside Governor Cuomo's 'State of the State' speech 

Monday January 9th, 2:00 UB North Campus!

Say NO to the Northern Access Pipeline!

In the days before his SOS speech, CALL GOVERNOR CUOMO.

Dial (518) 474-8390

Press 3 to talk with a representative

To see suggested messages, Click Here.

or 

Use your own…there are plenty of compelling reasons to say  

NO NOrthern Access 2016!

We need Gov. Cuomo and the DEC to Deny the DEC 401 Water Quality Permit for National Fuel’s proposed Northern Access 2016 Pipeline Project

WE NEED TO COMPLETE THE BAN ON FRACKING by 

SAYING NO TO FRACKED GAS INFRASTRUCTURE

CONTACT: Diana - Niagara Sierra Club niagarasierra@gmail.com 

Rally & Press Conference: Stop the Fracked Gas Pipeline

Climate Justice Coalition of WNY 

Northern Access 2016 Pipeline 
Press Conference and Rally 

Friday 4:00 pm in Wheatfield, NY  

PLEASE JOIN US! 

RALLY & PRESS CONFERENCE IN WHEATFIELD 

2251 Liberty Drive, Wheatfield, NY 

Friday, September 30, 2016 at 4:00 PM 

We will gather at the proposed site of the dehydration station to show Western NY stands together to say NO to National Fuel’s proposed Northern Access Pipeline

We have worked for months to connect the pieces of National Fuel’s proposed Northern Access 2016 Pipeline scattered throughout Western NY. We have found residents in Pendleton and Wheatfield spending endless hours and energy to protect their neighborhoods and families from the dangers of compressor and dehydration stations. We have found residents in Elma unaware of the significant expansion of a compressor just feet away from their homes.

All along the the 97 miles of pipeline are stories of farmers and landowners being threatened by National Fuel with eminent domain proceedings. We see grave threats to our precious waterways all through the beautiful landscape of WNY as this project would cross 180 streams and 270 wetlands before the fracked gas makes its way under the Niagara River and into Canada.

TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE AS DECISIONS COULD BE MADE THIS FALL WE NEED YOU!

IT IS TIME TO STAND TOGETHER, SUPPORT EACH OTHER AND SAY: 

We will come together to call on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Governor Cuomo, and the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation to say NO to this project. This project is solely for the profit of National Fuel. There is no need and necessity for this project that warrants endangering our communities, our precious water, air and natural environment.

Concerned Western NY residents
Wheatfield Action Team
Pendleton Action Team
WECAP
Sierra Club Niagara Group Contact: niagarasierra@gmail.com

RALLY: Stop a Fracked Gas Pipeline - Preserve Waterways and Wetlands

Stop the Northern Access 2016 Pipeline

 
WHAT: Rally at National Fuel Headquarters

WHEN: Wednesday, July 27, 3pm - 6pm

WHERE: 6363 Main St., Williamsville

The Pendleton Action Team and the Sierra Club Niagara Group are joining up to fight the building of a 96 mile fracked gas pipeline, compressor and dehydration stations proposed by National Fuel for Western NY.

Earlier this year, NYS DEC officials rejected the Constitution Pipeline Project, citing damage that it would do to water supplies along the pipeline route.

On that basis alone, the proposed Northern Access Project should not be permitted since it would cross 180 streams, 270 wetlands and 7 ponds in Cattaraugus, Allegany, and Erie Counties.

To add insult to potential injury, the gas would not only cross the Niagara River, it will be exported to Canada.

Furthermore, we need to incentivize infrastructure for Clean, Renewable Energy, not for dirty fossil fuels that cause carbon pollution and global warming.

Check out the Pendleton Action Team on Facebook for more information.
Visit  niagarasierraclub.com for info on our next meeting in August.
Information on the proposed pipeline and associated infrastructure can be found at National Fuel. 

ALBANY RALLY: Break Free from Fossil Fuels - May 14th

Rise Up for Climate Justice! Rally at Niagara Square on THURSDAY

All are invited to attend a CLIMATE RALLY in Buffalo: 

 Rise Up for Climate Justice! 

WHEN: Thursday, Sept. 24 at 5pm; *Festivities at 4pm
The same day Pope Francis meets with the U.S. Congress and is expected to call for moral action to address the injustice of human-caused Climate Change as laid out in his recent Encyclical.

WHERE:  Niagara Square in Buffalo, NY 
MAP with Metro Rail stations & Bus routes, Click Here 

SPEAKERS include members of: Physicians for Social Responsibility, WNY Interfaith Climate Justice Community, Buffalo Common Council, Sierra Club Niagara Group, PUSH Buffalo, Seneca Nation, and other groups.

SIGN UP for RALLY: 
- Facebook: Click Here - Invite your Friends! 
- Not a Facebook user? Sign up Here

*Pre-RALLY FESTIVITIES: Live Music, Song, Dance and Fun!

SCIENCE tells us we must stop burning fossil fuels to curb greenhouse gas pollution that causes global warming and drives Climate Change. 

JUSTICE for People and our Environment demands that we act in earnest NOW. 
 
WE THE PEOPLE call on President Obama and elected officials to back a global, legally-binding agreement to combat Climate Change and provide the necessary support for a Just Transition from fossil fuels to Clean, Sustainable Energy.

Please sign the Climate Justice Pledge  petitioning Obama for bold Climate Action.

For more information visit:
- facebook.com/riseupforclimatejustice
- twitter.com/SierraNiagara
- niagarasierraclub.com
- twitter.com/RU4CJBuffalo

Rise Up for Climate Justice! Rally at Niagara Square on September 24

GETTING TO PARIS AND A SANE CLIMATE AGREEMENT

Mobilizing Western New York for Climate Action and Social Justice 

(September – December 2015) 

Rise Up for Climate Justice

JOIN US 

Rally at Niagara Square on September 24 at 4:00pm

 The day Pope Francis speaks to the U.S. Congress

As President Obama said, “Climate Change is not a problem for another generation.” 

Failure to act would constitute a grave injustice to all future children of the Earth as well as to poor people and poor countries that contribute the least to global warming pollution.

SCIENCE TELLS US WE MUST STOP BURNING FOSSIL FUELS TO CURB GLOBAL WARMING, AND JUSTICE DEMANDS THAT WE ACT IN EARNEST NOW.

WE CALL ON THE PRESIDENT AND LEADERS OF ALL NATIONS
TO SIGN AND ENFORCE A UNIVERSAL, LEGALLY-BINDING AGREEMENT 

TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUPPORT A JUST TRANSITION 
FROM FOSSIL FUELS TO CLEAN ENERGY SOURCES.

"A true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor." -- Pope Francis

To learn more about CLIMATE JUSTICE, Click Here.   

For more information and opportunities to participate/volunteer as organizations or individuals,
visit the Sierra Club website: www.NiagaraSierraClub.com
Contact us at: niagarasierra@gmail.com

Sierra Club Meeting on Pope's Visit and Climate Rally

The Sierra Club Energy Committee will meet on Monday, August 10 at 6-7:30 PM at the Unitarian Universalist Church (Alliance Rm.), 695 Elmwood at Ferry, Buffalo. All are welcome to attend.

Key agenda item:
There are exciting plans developing to generate support for the Papal climate message as Pope Francis visits Washington DC and New York City on September 24th. We're looking to continue to build on the Pope's message to impact the December UN International Climate Change conference in Paris.

See a draft memo about a Rally for Climate Justice at Niagara Square in Buffalo on September 24th in conjunction with Pope Francis’ address to the U.S. Congress in Washington, DC and his subsequent visits to St. Patrick's Cathedral and the United Nations in New York City.

Photo credit: Moral Action on Climate

RALLY: Save Times Beach Nature Preserve - Saturday, 12:30pm

The Friends of Times Beach Nature Preserve have an urgent Rally scheduled for this Saturday, 12:30pm, at Times Beach Nature Preserve [Map].
  
The WNY Environmental Alliance (WNYEA) has adopted a set of principles focused on Outer Harbor development that can be found at the GrowWNY Website: Click "Covering the Outer Harbor".

The Final Plan for the Outer Harbor will probably be released early next week without further public comment. We have been informed that the final plan will be as presented at the ECHDC (Erie County Harbor Development Corporation) open house two weeks ago. It shows the development of a new "neighborhood" surrounding Times Beach Nature Preserve, including Wilkeson Pointe, the popular wind-sculpture Park built with Public Funding last year. 

The Final Plan will turn the Nature Preserve into 

a Condominium compound. 

Final Plan [Click image to enlarge]

We want a Nature Preserve, NOT a Condo compound.   We want Public Parks, NOT Private Residences.
We need your help and support to demonstrate public opposition and support of the WNYEA principles. Please consider attending the Friends of Times Beach Nature Preserve's Rally on this Saturday at Times Beach starting at 12:30 [Map]. 

Bring signs, your voices, and come to learn about, talk about, and participate in what options we have left.
 
For more information and links, Click Here.
 
To see a Photo Album of last weeks wonderful Times Beach Nature Preserve Dedication Ceremony, Click Here.

Please share this with friends and ask them to Bring Signs!

Questions: Email Jay Burney at lscampaign@aol.com

Thank you to GrowWNY, WNYEA and all Supporters.

 
Visit:  Friends of Times Beach Nature Preserve

Rally for Clean Energy not Fracking -- Featured Speakers

Get On the Bus to Albany!
Buffalo/Rochester Bus: Reserve Seat Now: Click Here.
For more information, Click Here. 

Albany Rally -- No to Fracking, Yes to Renewable Energy

New York Crossroads

Rally to Stop Fracking and Demand Renewable Energy!

 

On Monday, June 17, 2013, citizens from across New York—from Long Island to Niagara Falls—will arrive in Albany to demand freedom from dirty energy, calling on Governor Cuomo to reject fracking and lead the nation in building a renewable energy economy here and now in New York.

At this march and rally, the anti-fracking movement will, for the first time, join with business leaders, faith leaders, health professionals, elected officials, farmers, and youth to demand the renewable energy jobs that our families and communities want and deserve.

• What: Stop Fracking and Demand Renewable Energy 
• When: Monday, June 17th, 12pm-3pm 
• Where: Rally and March on East Capitol Lawn, Albany 
• Buffalo/Rochester Bus: Reserve Seat Now: Click Here 

Sponsored by New Yorkers Against Fracking, Food & Water Watch, Frack Action, Catskill Mountainkeeper, United for Action, NYPIRG, Citizens Environmental Coalition, Western NY Drilling Defense, Alliance for a Green Economy and many more to be announced.

Climate Rally in DC - Reserve Bus Seat - See UPDATE

What: Forward on Climate Rally.
When: February 17, 2013 -- 12 Noon.
Where: Washington Monument on the National Mall, Washington DC.
Who: 350.org, The Sierra Club, Hip Hop Caucus and tens of thousands of Americans.

Click here to join the action.

Sierra Club Niagara Group chartered a Bus

Leave Buffalo Saturday, February 16 at 11:15 PM. Return late Sunday or early Monday.

Cost $70/per person, full fare
$25 "Scholarship" seats are available to students, unemployed and low-income folks

Seating and scholarships are on a first paid/first served basis, 
so send in your check today! 
Make check out to “Sierra Club Niagara Group” and send to Sierra Club, 601 W Ferry Street, Buffalo, NY 14222
If you can’t go but can  afford to help, PLEASE send a donation today !

UPDATE 2/9/2013: Sierra Club is sending a SECOND BUS
Seats will be reserved on a first paid basis.
Checks payable to "Sierra Club Niagara Group" can be mailed or dropped off at the address above.
Alternatively, you can pay by credit card by going to VPSpay.com
Enter this Merchant Phone number 716-849-0140 and the Amount paid ($70 full, $25 scholarship).
Enter "Sierra Club Bus" in the Invoice box. A small service charge will be added.
An email will be sent automatically to the law office of Diane Ciurczak confirming your payment and your name will be entered on the bus list.

Donations are also accepted and should be entered as "Scholarship Donation".

For more information: dianeciurczak@yahoo.com or call 716-849-0140

BUS Departure: 11:15 p.m. Saturday, February 16, from the Park & Ride Lot on the University of Buffalo South Campus (Main St. near Kenmore Ave.)

BUS Return: late Sunday or early Monday. 

Contact Bill Nowak at 716-316-7674 or bill.nowakcwa@gmail.com for more information.

Climate Rally & March in Washington DC -- Hop on the Bus!

JOIN THE LARGEST CLIMATE RALLY EVER!!

Sunday, February 17, 2013
in 
Washington D.C.

Rally on the National Mall and March to the White House

Sierra Club Niagara Group has chartered a Bus

leaving Buffalo the evening of February 16 and returning directly after the rally

Cost $70/per person.  Scholarships available.*

Email Linda or Sara at (rmc.law2511@yahoo.com) to reserve a space

Payment due by February 11, 2013 to hold your seat with checks payable to “Sierra Club Niagara Group” and mail to:

          More information:  sierraclubangela@gmail.com

For more information see http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageServer?pagename=forwardonclimate or

http://niagarasierraclub.wordpress.com

*Fundraiser on Friday, February 8, 2013.  Music by Five to One at Sportsmen’s Tavern, 326 Amherst Street (12 doors west of Grant)  5:30pm–8:30pm   $5 cover ($2 to scholarship) and 50/50 split.

EVENT Sponsored by Sierra Club National and 350.org FORWARD ON CLIMATE RALLY! What: The largest climate rally in history. Where: The National Mall in Washington, D.C., including a march to the White House When: February 17, 2013, Noon - 4:00 p.m. (please arrive by 11:30 a.m.) Crippling drought. Devastating wildfires. Superstorm Sandy. Climate has come home -- and the American people get it. Information:  http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageServer?pagename=forwardonclimate

We're building  A GLOBAL MOVEMENT TO SOLVE THE CLIMATE CRISIS  

Broad-Based WNY Coalition Urges Sen. Grisanti to Support Fracking Ban

By Rita Yelda ~

Over 1,700 Western NY Residents, 100 Local Businesses and Organizations Demand Grisanti Support Legislation to Prohibit Controversial Drilling Method

Buffalo, NY – Concerned Buffalo residents joined community leaders, business owners and representatives from consumer, environmental and social justice groups today at a rally in support of a statewide ban on the highly controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.”

The rally targeted State Senator Mark Grisanti, chair of the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee, who has yet to publicly support a ban on fracking in New York.

A broad-based array of community members gathered at Sen. Grisanti’s office to present the senator with 1,766 petition signatures from local residents and 102 letters from local organizations and businesses. Senator Grisanti was specifically urged to co-sponsor SB4220 and bring it up for a vote, as the bill has been languishing in his committee since last year. The bill would stop the NY Department of Environmental Conservation from issuing permits to allow drilling in the state. The rally came nine days before the end of the legislative session.

"In spite of overwhelming evidence that fracking cannot be done safely, the Senate has refused to act on legislation to protect New Yorkers from this dangerous, polluting practice. As the legislative session draws to a close, our elected officials need to know that their inaction will not go unnoticed," said Rita Yelda, organizer with Food & Water Watch.

"By ignoring his constituents and constituent groups, the senator is siding with influential oil and gas companies. Today I hope the Senator sees that we're sending the strong message that we all value our vital water resources and will not allow the oil and gas industry to risk these resources," added Jim Anderson, Vice President of the State Board for Citizen Action NY.

 

 See more photos here