As Chair of Sierra Club Susquehanna Group (over 1000 members), and as a New York resident,
I support the Propel NY Energy Project. The project is needed as it is a key enabler of the
State's responsibility to meet mandated targets of its own 2019 Climate Leadership and
Community Protection Act (CLCPA). Associated contracts should recognize inflation
adjustments.

Both Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter and the constituent Susquehanna Group support the project
and understand that (1) associated environmental impacts are minimal, and (2) the developers
have prioritized mitigating those impacts.

Propel NY is critically needed to assist the NY City region and western Long Island transition
electricity supplies away from unhealthy, polluting fossil-fuel-based sources and toward
renewable sources such as wind and solar power.

The Project will reduce disease aggravated by fossil fuel use (including asthma, cancer,
cardiovascular disease, dementia) in the region and especially in environmental justice
communities. Propel will also help NYS do its part to help save a habitable climate.
Consequences of climate change include famine, governmental collapse, and the breakdown of
human civilization. A wealthy entity, New York State clearly has the ability to meet moral
obligations to protect its residents and to do its part to preserve a habitable planet. At a
minimum NYS should meet its 2030, 2040 and 2050 CLCPA-mandated targets for greenhouse
gas emissions reductions and renewably sourced electricity.

A 2024 'Power Trends' report by the NY Independent System Operator (NYISO) reveals NYS
seriously lags in meeting its CLCPA-mandated 203o target of 70% renewable electricity, which
at current rates would not be achieved until 2100.

The Sierra Club and other informed members of the public are deeply concerned that humanity
may miss its chance to save a habitable climate if we don't act with more urgency and at
appropriate scale. The CLCPA targets are well supported by 100s of scientists and by the
United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Author: Valdi Weiderpass, Chair of the Susquehanna Group