“This is a climate Justice victory— this is what the industrial waterfront of the future looks like. Addressing climate justice in NYC demands non-traditional partnerships ready to support frontline solutions and birth a frontline green new deal starting with our industrial waterfronts. Offshore wind is a necessary part of operationalizing our community-led Green Resilient Industrial District proposal in Sunset Park, Brooklyn to utilize our industrial sector to create thousands of well-paid clean energy jobs and to build for our climate future,” said Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of UPROSE and co-chair of the Climate Justice Alliance.
Sunset Park activists, officials, environmentalists quick to endorse wind-energy proposal