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SMARTCITIESDIVE | APRIL 2024 NYLPI Director of Policy Justin Wood was featured in a story about NYC’s fare-free bus program. New York State Sen. Michael Gianaris and Assembly Member Zohran T...

https://www.nylpi.org/smartcitiesdive-justin-wood-responds-to-potential-for-nyc-fare-free-bus-program-expansion/

2025 Post-Graduate Legal Fellowship Opportunities: Advancing Justice through Community Lawyering in New York New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI), a community-driven civil rights orga...

https://www.nylpi.org/career/2025-post-graduate-legal-fellowships/

NYLPI Director of Policy Justin Wood was honored among City & State’s Trailblazers in Energy list: The question is, does Justin Wood hate garbage trucks or polluting power plants more? The p...

https://www.nylpi.org/nylpi-director-of-policy-justin-wood-included-in-city-state-nys-2024-trailblazers-in-energy-list/

NEW YORK TIMES | APRIL 2024 NYLPI Co-Director of Health Justice Karina Albistegui Adler‘s guest opinion essay was included as one of six responses to “We Should Be Allowed to The post New ...

https://www.nylpi.org/new-york-times-karina-albistegui-adler-responds-to-op-ed-writer-urges-transplant-equity-with-regard-to-kidney-transplant-discussion/

NYLPI joined coalition partners from Climate Works for All in a letter to Mayor Eric Adams’ office, urging New York City to implement pressing changes in its Fiscal Year 2025 The post Climat...

https://www.nylpi.org/climate-works-for-all-coalition-urges-mayor-adams-to-use-fiscal-year-2025-budget-to-address-essential-funding-for-just-transition/

In response to the Transportation, Economic Development and Environmental Conservation (TED) Bill of the FY 2025 New York State Budget, NY Renews issued the following statement: It’s outrageous...

https://www.nylpi.org/ny-renews-statement-on-ted-bill-of-the-fy-2025-new-york-state-budget/

In response to the Transportation, Economic Development and Environmental Conservation (TED) Bill of the FY 2025 New York State Budget, NY Renews issued the following statement: It’s outrageous...

https://www.nylpi.org/resource/press-release-ny-renews-statement-on-ted-bill-of-the-fy-2025-new-york-state-budget/

Justin Wood, director of Policy at NYLPI, and Kelly Vilar, CEO of Staten Island Urban Center, penned an op-ed about the vital inclusion of the New York HEAT Act in The post Op-Ed: “N.Y. shou...

https://www.nylpi.org/op-ed-n-y-should-pass-the-heat-act-to-save-on-energy-and-our-climate-by-justin-wood-and-kelly-vilar/

Justin Wood, director of Policy at NYLPI, was honored in Crain’s New York Business’s 2024 Notable Leaders in Sustainability list. Wood was a founding member of the Transform Don’t Trash ...

https://www.nylpi.org/justin-wood-chosen-as-one-of-crains-new-york-businessess-2024-notable-leaders-in-sustainability/

Dear Speaker Adams, I am writing to express my support for the Climate Works For All coalition’s climate priorities for the FY25 budget. Mayor Adams needs to make climate a The post Climate ...

https://www.nylpi.org/resource/climate-works-fiscal-year-2024-2025-climate-priorities/