Mar 2025 ZWTF Environmental Activism Under the Current Administration
Last chance to comment on Westchester waste study is March 19! Find links and sample text at https://tinyurl.com/DEFstudy
Watch the recording of our deep dive with climate leaders and organizers to discuss tried and true tools and strategies for making progress on our shared climate goals. We will be having a special 2-hour meeting to allow time for all the important topics.
How can the movement be proactive and not just reactive? What tools are available at the local level? What power do states have to step in and ensure environmental protections? How do we keep making progress on climate and environmental justice without federal oversight?
We will hear from a number of speakers about different strategy areas:
Statewide strategies - Raya Salter (Energy Justice Alliance, Climate Action Committee)
Nationwide Strategies - Alexis Goldsmith (Beyond Plastics)
Financial Strategies - Shay O’Reilly (Campaign Manager for the Spring Street Climate Fund)
Global Strategies - Jessica Roff (GAIA)
Municipal Strategies - Nicola Armacost (Mayor, Hastings-on-Hudson)
County/Local Strategies- Courtney Williams (WASS)
Register for future meetings here: https://wasspeekskill.org/meeting/
Our Zero Waste Task Force meetings are held on the second Wednesday of the month.
If you have questions, reach out to WASS at [email protected]
Presentation Links:
Raya Salter
https://evrgn.co/IRA-defense
NY IRA Fact Sheet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bR-D...
State by State IRA Fact Sheets: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Climate Justice Voters: https://www.cjvoters.org/
Shay O'Reilly
Full presentation with links https://docs.google.com/presentation/...
Nicola Armacost
Hastings-on-Hudson CSC Task Force page: https://www.hohny.gov/346/Climate-Sma...
Alexis Goldsmith
What can we do about plastic reduction legislation? https://www.beyondplastics.org/nys-pa...
Lobby Day with Beyond Plastics https://actionnetwork.org/events/5-7-25
and its associated letter action: bit.ly/prria-2025
Jessica Roff
GAIA Global Recycling Day webinar registration https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regis...
Other Links
Action on NY HEAT Act and rate hikes: https://renewableheatnow.org/
Hastings Spring Thing 2025: https://www.hastingsgreen.org/social-...
Rally in Peekskill Friday, March 21 at 11 AM: https://actionnetwork.org/events/gove...
Public banking in New York State: https://www.neweconomynyc.org/our-wor...