Spectrum News 1

Beacon shifts to electric-only new construction by 2024

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Beaconites! Podcast

Building a climate movement in Beacon, with Thomas Wright and Erin Ashoka

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The Highlands Current

Local Residents Mobilize to Aid Migrants

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2023

• Hudson Valley Press: Beacon Hosts Second Annual Taproots Festival
• Highlands Current: Local Residents Mobilize to Aid Migrants
• Highlands Current: Then, Now & How (Part 3)
• Beaconites! Podcast: Building a climate movement in Beacon, with Thomas Wright and Erin Ashoka
• Radio Kingston: Our New Neighbors are Welcome
• The Highlands Current: Asylum-Seekers Enter Divided Country
• Well + Good: How Community Activism Is Saving Me From My Climate Despair
• Spectrum News 1: Beacon shifts to electric-only new construction by 2024
• WAMC: City of Beacon one of first in New York to ban new natural gas installations
• The Highlands Current: Beacon Makes Electric History
• Times Union: Beacon requires new buildings be gas-free starting in 2024
• News12 Hudson Valley: Beacon becomes first community to ban fossil fuels in new buildings
• Mid Hudson News: Beacon adopts all-electric construction law
• Politco: Transition costs hit utility bills
• News12 Westchester: Beacon to require all future construction projects, renovations to use electric utilities
• The Highlands Current: Beacon Council Seeks Feedback
• The Highlands Current: Electric Beacon

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2022

• Spectrum News: Group wants to ban gas-burning appliances in new Beacon buildings
• Times Union: Beacon introduces bill to ban gas heating, appliances in new buildings
• The Highlands Current: Gas-Free Beacon?
• The Highlands Current: Living Green: Close to Home
• The Highlands Current: Beacon Council Members to Propose Gas Ban
• Mid Hudson News: Environmentalists rally on anniversary of DEC halt of new Danskammer (VIDEO)