A Livable Planet for All
A livable planet starts with livable homes, clean air, safe jobs, and secure communities right here in NY-7. Climate change isn’t a distant threat. It’s already raising our energy bills, flooding our waterfronts, worsening asthma, and making our apartments dangerously hot in the summer.
NY-7 isn’t just on the frontlines of the climate crisis; it’s been on the receiving end of fossil fuel pollution for generations. Our waterfront was home to some of the first modern oil refineries and the toxic legacy is still with us today: contaminated sites, poisoned waterways, heavy truck traffic, and neighborhoods where working people breathe dirtier air so corporations can profit.
Claire will fight to cut pollution and lower costs by winning a Green New Deal that puts working people in charge of the transition. She will push to decarbonize and retrofit NYCHA—lowering utility bills, fixing mold and leaks, and making homes safer through heat waves and storms. She will demand urgency and resources for the federal cleanup of the Newtown Creek Superfund site and make polluters pay for the damage they’ve done. She will join Senator Bernie Sanders’ call for a moratorium on new AI data centers until we have clear rules to protect our grid and water from runaway corporate energy use. And she will back climate action that creates good union jobs and protects our communities from flooding and extreme heat.