The New York Chapter of the Sierra Club
Welcome to the Atlantic Chapter's website - learn more about the work we are doing to protect New York's air, water, communities, and remaining wild places!
Make the most out of this Data Center Moratorium: Take Action Today!
- The rapid growth of data centers projected for New York is poised to overwhelm utilities, undermine environmental quality, increase public health impacts, and put ratepayers at risk for dramatically increased costs because of the infrastructure and extraordinary power demands of these facilities. Imagine one of these AI hyperscalers - several stories high, covering 15 foot ball fields of micro processors, whirring 24 hours a day at high decibels, spewing contaminated cooling water and polluting the air with dirty back up generators - is placed in your community with little government oversight or local control. The stakes are high and New York’s communities are not ready for the 30+ hyperscale data centers waiting for permission from grid operators to come online right now.
The first part of this Generic Environmental Impact Statement is a process called ‘scoping” where the public weighs in on the universe of issues they would like to see covered under this review. Will you help us make sure this process is as comprehensive as possible? Please send in comments today!
- The rapid growth of data centers projected for New York is poised to overwhelm utilities, undermine environmental quality, increase public health impacts, and put ratepayers at risk for dramatically increased costs because of the infrastructure and extraordinary power demands of these facilities. Imagine one of these AI hyperscalers - several stories high, covering 15 foot ball fields of micro processors, whirring 24 hours a day at high decibels, spewing contaminated cooling water and polluting the air with dirty back up generators - is placed in your community with little government oversight or local control. The stakes are high and New York’s communities are not ready for the 30+ hyperscale data centers waiting for permission from grid operators to come online right now.
New mini-documentary from the Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter shows how upstate NY towns are taking the lead in fighting the spread of toxic sewage sludge on farmland in NYS
- Dangerous PFAS “forever chemicals” are found in sewage sludge, the solids left over from wastewater treatment plants, yet the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation allows big companies to dump them on farmland and golf courses in the state, billing it as fertilizer. Working with the Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter's Farm & Food Committee, Documentarian Alexa Tumbarello interviewed neighbors in the towns of Thurston and Cameron, NY (Steuben County), as well as impacted community members in Albany county. These community members took on the big companies like Casella Organics - who spread toxic sewage sludge on nearby farmland - and these community members are continuing to fight for the health of streams and fresh groundwater -- and themselves -- even as some neighbors’ wells are shown to be contaminated.
Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter's Statement in Response to Governor Hochul's Plan to Build New Nuclear in Central New York (June 23, 2025)
- Sierra Club Decries Governor Hochul's Plan to Spend Billions Developing New "Advanced" Nuclear Energy in New York
- Read full statement here
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