Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he is against the proposed Astoria power plant during a press conference on Monday, April 19.
De Blasio made the announcement as he spoke about Earth week, saying the city will be talking about how it’s addressing climate change during the week ahead of Earth Day on Thursday, April 22.
“Today, I’m taking a stand, formerly, against two fossil fuel plants — the two peaker plants, they’re called — that have been proposed in Astoria and Gowanus,” de Blasio said. “These are plants that would be run on fracked gas, they are plants that would take us backwards, not forwards. They are plants that would unfortunately place us in that past of fossil fuels dependency and hold us back. They should not be allowed to go forward.”
