New Yorkers’ electricity bills are some of the highest and fastest rising in the country (with gas heating bills not far behind). That's real, and it's not your fault.

The reason? Decades of dependence on fossil fuels – gas and fuel oil – whose prices are controlled by corporations and foreign markets, not by us. What’s worse, as natural gas prices go up – because of everything from a cold snap to a war overseas – that cost gets passed onto us in our bills.

New York passed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) to change that. It's working to bring more clean, locally-produced energy that doesn't spike when natural gas prices do or when the price of a barrel of oil jumps 40% over the weekend.

A fossil fuel-backed group has asked a state agency — the New York Public Service Commission — to hold a hearing that could weaken New York's clean energy law. We have until March 30 to tell the New York Public Service Commission (PSC): Deny this petition.

They're framing it as being about reliability and costs. But the communities that have fought the longest for cleaner air and lower bills know the truth: this petition is about protecting fossil fuel profits, not protecting us.

The CLCPA is the law and we need it to help lower our energy bills. It cannot be paused by a back-door petition. The PSC must deny this attempt by the fossil fuel industry to weaken the climate law.