Clean Air Coalition of WNY

@cacwny.org

We build power by developing grassroots leaders to organize their communities to run and win environmental justice and public health campaigns in Erie and Niagara Counties in WNY. http://linktr.ee/cleanairwny

Graphic of confetti falling with text overlaid; text reads "Clean Air Celebrates Today’s data center Executive Order and thanks Governor Hochul as well as all our members and supporters for your work to push for action!"

Text says "OSC BUILDS DATA CENTERS, Ontario Specialty Contracting is an industrial brownfield developer. One of their preferred end uses when redeveloping industrial sites is data centers. Send an email today to the leadership of OSC urging them to pivot their planned uses for brownfield redevelopments, like at the former Tonawanda Coke aka the Riverview Innovation Tech Campus, to renewable energy generation and storage, not data centers! Use our letter campaign at https://linktr.ee/cleanairwny"

Text reads - DATA CENTER MORATORIUM NOW, BIG NEWS UPDATE, CALL YOUR REPS IN ALBANY, SESSION ENDS JUNE 4, 1-year Moratorium Bill S10642/A11560 Moving fast to the floor!, Please continue to voice support for 3-year bill s9144a/a10141a but either bill will be a win and will give us time to pass local and state regulations!, THANK YOU SENATOR BASKIN AND ASSEMBLYMEMBER McMAHON FOR COSPONSORING the moratorium from the start! Senator Zellner and Assemblymember rivera have NOW also signed on. thank you to both as well!, we have heard other WNY reps are supportive, particularly of the 1-year bill, but they have not spoken out publicly to commit to vote yes yet., Please continue to call WNY representative’s offices to let them know unregulated data centers are a concern of yours, and that you want to see a moratorium pass by Thursday, Find your rep https://elections.ny.gov/new-york-state-elected-officials

Text reads "2026 Solidarity Bloc Buffalo Pride Parade Sunday June 7, March in the Buffalo Pride Parade with Clean Air to protest transphobic techbro fascism and their data center built out in our communities, please register using the link in our bio to help us plan!"

Text reads - DATA CENTER MORATORIUM NOW
CALL YOUR REPS IN ALBANY TODAY
SESSION ENDS JUNE 4

Graphic of the flyer for the event, with white and orange bars with text overlaid and logos of the organizing and participating organizations (No New Jails Erie County, SURJ Buffalo, The Partnership for the Public Good, VOICE Buffalo, Creative Restorations.) Text reads "Join us for a Budget Town Hall to discuss how we as community members would spend the $2.28 billion Erie County budget if we had the choice. Saturday May 16, 11am-2pm, Central Library Central Meeting Room 2nd Floor, 1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo NY 14203, Register: https://bit.ly/NNJBudgetTownHall26, We stopped 2 proposals to expand the jails in Erie County, now it's time to increase the investment in services that will make our communities safer, FUND OUR COMMUNITES"

Flyer for Workers Memorial Day. Text reads "WORKERS MEMORIAL DAY, REMEMBERING AND HONORING LIVES LOST AT WORK, Join the Buffalo Central Labor Council, the Western New York Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO and WNYCOSH on April 28, 2026 at 6pm at Chestnut Ridge Park, 6121 Chestnut Ridge Road, Orchard Park, NY 14127, This event will also be livestreamed on facebook.com/wnycosh, for more information contact Grace Bogdanove, grace.bogdonave@1199.org

A crowd of people standing in front of and around the Caboose parked outside the Cheektowaga Senior Center. Signs and flags carried have messages like "ICE OUT OF 250 DELAWARE", "Let's Get the Climate Act Done! No Data Centers In NY", "Defend NY", "Gov Hochul: Make Polluters Pay" and "Pass NY4ALL"

Photo of a crowd outside the Albany Hilton carrying an assortment of banners with messages such as Tax the Rich, Protect Immigrants and Make Polluters Pay

Graphic of a group photo of Clean Air staff and community members from multiple organizations in WNY raising their fists together. Text reads "WE ARE HIRING! APPLY NOW! YES, YOU! Coalition Community Organizer For Full Details https://www.cacwny.org/ Send your resume to jobs@cacwny.org

$Screenshot of an email newsletter from Seneca Lake Guardian with their statement on the approval of a Title V air permit for Greenidge Generation. Text reads - "We are shocked and sickened by today’s late breaking news that Governor Hochul has just abandoned the Finger Lakes and gutted the climate law in a political capitulation to the Greenidge Bitcoin Mining facility on Seneca Lake. In a stunning reversal, she has retracted the decision to deny Greenidge’s Title V Air Permit on the grounds that it violates the Climate Law, and has instead issued this dirty polluting fracked gas power plant a five year permit to keep operating- right in the middle of a court case that was set to resume in two weeks. On the same day, she approved the NESE pipeline- a project that has been denied multiple times because of its environmental risks, signaling her commitment to obliterate any semblance of responsibility to the climate. This is a disgusting betrayal of New Yorkers and a slap in the face to everyone who fought for our climate law, and for the Finger Lakes region. Governor Hochul is siding with a fossil-fueled Bitcoin mine over our air, water, and climate future — handing Greenidge a license to pollute after the state rightly denied its permit. This deal drags us backward and makes a mockery of the Climate Act that New Yorkers voted for. It’s a disgraceful failure of leadership , a betrayal of our community and a gift to corporate polluters at the expense of our region and our planet. We are simply speechless, but we promise you that this will not go unanswered. We will be meeting with our legal team on Monday and will have more information to share once we digest this situation. We will fight this together, as we always have, because we are on the side of right. Yvonne Taylor and Joseph Campbell Principals, Seneca Lake Guardian "$