Gary A. Abraham, Esq.

New York Public Service Commission should reject Clean Energy Zones proposal and focus on long-distance transmission to unbottle the state electricity system (comments filed with PSC on September 10, 2026)

New York Power Authority should target state emissions goals with new nuclear power and abandon the effort to achieve CLCPA with renewables alone (comments filed with NYPA on August 14, 2024)

Climate Change is Real; NY’s Energy Plan is Not -- Briefing Book prepared by Stop Energy Sprawl

CWM Chemical Svcs., LLC RMU-2 hazardous waste landfill proceeding (NYSDEC and NYS Hazardous Waste Facility Siting Board), final decisions denying approval

Town of Copake et al. v. NYS Office of Renewable Energy Siting (filed June 29, 2021, Albany Co. Supreme Court)

Alle-Catt Wind Energy litigation

NYISO tells NY Public Service Commission: wind farms in western NY and the north country do little good

Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale solid waste is being disposed at New York landfills

New York towns can still regulate wind farms under Article 10 of the Public Service Law

New York towns can ban or regulate solid waste landfills

“A well-instructed liberal, who has behaved with the prescribed delicacy toward women and people of color, can consent to the plunder of the land and people of rural America and sleep like a conservative.” —Wendell Berry, The Need to Be Whole (2022)

Publications

President Clinton's Executive Order on Environmental Justice (1997)

Review of Christopher Foreman, Jr., The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice (1998)

Concepts of Community in Environmental Disputes: Farmersville and Western New York's Garbage War (1999)

The Market for Environmental Justice (2000)

Inconvenient Truths About Wind Energy (2010)

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