Emily Gallagher

This week, we did our first live recorded episode of The Hum in Brooklyn at New York Climate Week.

I talked to three elected officials deep in the work of regulating AI data centers, Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Davante Lewis, Georgia Public Service Commissioner Peter Hubbard, and New York State Rep Emily Gallagher.

We talked about the challenges of finding information about proposed projects, the pressures elected officials face from industry, and what they see coming next in their communities.

[upbeat music] All right.

It's probably my friends.

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That was my conversation with elected officials Davante Lewis, Peter Hubbard, and Emily Gallagher, that we co-hosted with Read Locally.

You can find more about their work in the show notes.

Michael, who

would you like to pass the torch to? So there's this badass legislator in New York State named Emily Gallagher.

She's working to hold the fossil fuel climate criminals accountable.

And she just passed the Sunny Act, which mandates that the state allows people to have their own solar panels in their homes and apartment without having to go through insane amounts of bureaucracy.

And, you know, at the same time, it's also realizing that in the last 10 or 15 years, development sentiment has changed.

Ben talked to Emily Gallagher, one of the council members, who told him, she was like, I didn't want the Domino Sugar factory to be redeveloped.

She was worried about the jobs there, the sort of manufacturing history, but...

You know, all these years later, when she looks at it, she's like, there's a lot of units of housing there.