“We are at a critical moment in time for our planet and we need to do all that we can to protect it before it’s too late. The Hudson Valley is our home and I’ll always do everything I can to preserve it for future generations.”
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Didi is a statewide leader on environmental advocacy in New York. She helped pass the nation-leading Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act to set aggressive carbon emissions goals, and sponsored the constitutional amendment to ensure our right to clean air, water and a healthful environment as well as the $4.2 billion Environmental Bond Act that is funding climate projects statewide.
GREEN JOBS AND CLEAN ENERGY INITIATIVES
Helped create the Climate Action Fund, ensuring money from corporate polluters goes toward environmental cleanup efforts and green energy incentivization like consumer and small-business rebates (SFY 2023-24 Budget).
Wrote and passed the SITED Act, making it easier for NY communities to identify areas suitable for clean-energy sites (Ch. 759 of 2023).
Wrote and helped pass legislation to create a regenerative agriculture project to allow farmers to begin sequestering carbon in their soil, taking harmful greenhouse gasses out of the local air while aiding soil resiliency and productivity to their farms (Chapter 54 of 2019).
Supports the proposed Climate Change Superfund Act, designed to generate much-needed revenue for infrastructure, climate resilience and job training while holding accountable those who created our climate crisis (A.3351-A of 2023).
STOPPING CORPORATE POLLUTION
Made New York one of the first states to ban the dangerous and destructive practice of hydraulic fracking (SFY 2020-21 Budget).
Helped lead the effort to hold GE accountable for decades of Hudson River pollution.
Passed landmark legislation to protect the Hudson River from a federal proposal to create more than 40 anchorages for petroleum carrying barges, effectively thwarting a plan that would convert the iconic river into a fossil fuel highway (Ch. 351 of 2017).
Didi is also proud to have helped make New York a leader in home energy efficiency by creating the Empower+ Program, providing free energy-efficient home improvements to help lower energy bills and reduce our environmental impact at home.