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Show support to Governor Hochul for greenlighting congestion pricing

What's At Stake

Earlier this month, Gov. Hochul announced New York will move forward with its Congestion Pricing Program, a life-saving policy that will fund public transportation improvements, clean up air pollution, and reduce traffic. This program will also be an essential tool to help New York reduce planet-cooking greenhouse gas emissions.

Help us support Governor Hochul for putting congestion pricing back on track.

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Back in 2019, New York legislators passed the Congestion Pricing program to address clogged streets and air pollution, and to improve public transit with funds from tolls. The program, which will kick off on January 5, 2025, will funnel over $1 billion to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) annually for essential infrastructure upgrades. This move will pay immediate dividends for New Yorkers breathing unhealthy air, including raising the funds that will allow MTA to purchase 250 new battery electric buses.

Traffic fumes are responsible for more than 1,000 premature deaths in New York City every year and the fumes from vehicles clogging our streets are contributing to illnesses like asthma and heart and lung diseases. Moving forward with Congestion Pricing will save lives by getting more polluting vehicles off the roads.

Now, it’s time for Gov. Hochul and other New York leaders to take further steps to prioritize New York’s clean air future. In the face of an incoming Trump administration that appears hostile to all environmental policies, we need New York to step up.

  • Stay the course on electrifying dirty diesel trucks. Diesel trucks are a major contributor to the state’s air quality crisis, especially in places like the South Bronx. We need Gov. Hochul to stay on course on implementing Advanced Clean Trucks, a policy that would gradually transition New York away from polluting diesel trucks to all-electric zero-emissions options.
  • Clean up pollution from mega-warehouses. The rise in e-commerce and online shopping across New York has driven an unchecked warehousing boom that has delivered pollution to communities across the state. Unlike a coal or a gas plant, because warehouse pollution comes from multiple “indirect” sources like trucks and vans. Governor Hochul should come out in strong support of the Clean Deliveries Act law, which will bring relief to communities living near warehouses by requiring the state to review emissions from warehouses and for warehouse operators to take steps to reduce pollution.

Tell Governor Hochul you support her decision to preserve  congestion pricing and let her know that now is the moment to accelerate New York’s climate and clean air leadership.

Gray and yellowish smoke limits visibility in photo.
A Circle Line ferry sails past the Williamsburg Bridge as the Manhattan skyline is shrouded in smoke from Canada wildfires on June 6, 2023 in New York City. New York City is bathed in a blanket of unhealthy air as smoke from Canadian wildfires seeps across much of the eastern U.S. and Great Lakes areas. (NDZ/STAR MAX/IPx via AP)

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