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Overview

      Last year, New York state passed the nation's most ambitious climate law, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, or CLCPA. The law also contains the nation's most substantive environmental and climate justice provisions. The CLCPA's mandates, including broad goals for clean generation and energy efficiency, have profound implications for the state's infrastructure. Raya Salter will provide an overview of the law, its justice provisions and what it may mean for New York.

      Mike Harrington will present on his urban heat and environmental justice work that he did with Urban Design Forum fellows this year. Urban heat is consistently the most-deadly environmental disaster in the US. It kills more people than hurricanes, floods and fires and it tends to impact people on the margins. In his work with the Forum, Mike worked with a team of accomplished professionals to create…