bill, the Climate and Community Protection Act), the Climate and Community Investment Act, the All-Electric API is also a member of the Business Council of New Building Act, the Clean Futures Act, the Statewide York State. [...] However, as this report shows, the State19, and a board member of the Buffalo Niagara fossil fuel industry and its corporate networks have been Partnership20 and New Yorkers for Affordable Energy.21 mobilizing to delay, water down, and otherwise frustrate Gavin Donohue is the president of Independent Power the implementation of the CLCPA and other key climate Producers of New York, a lobbying grou. [...] As mentioned above, National Fuel is one of the companies at the center of the New Yorkers for Affordable Energy front group, supplying lobbyists Karen Merkel and Nicholas DeCarolis is also a member of the board of directors Stalnecker to serve as one of the founding directors and of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, a regional chamber president of the group respectively. [...] combustion in all new buildings.62 In addition to its current lobbying on climate bills, National Fuel also Further, National Fuel is also a member of the Energy lobbied against the Climate and Community Protection Coalition New York, a lobbying group representing Act (the bill that eventually became the CLCPA) in the major gas and electric utilities in the state, 201663 and against the CLCPA thro. [...] Chamber of Commerce, Upstate United and the Business Council of New York State are all named as members of the New Yorkers for Affordable Energy coalition.125 While the Buffalo Niagara Partnership is the most active and influential of New York’s regional chambers of commerce, other local chambers have comparable fossil fuel ties and are also active in the fight against climate action.
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