{"id":317551,"date":"2016-01-20T06:30:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T11:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grist.org\/?post_type=grist-50-profiles&amp;p=317551"},"modified":"2016-01-20T06:30:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T11:30:03","slug":"donovan-richards","status":"publish","type":"grist-50-profiles","link":"https:\/\/grist.org\/grist-50\/profile\/donovan-richards\/","title":{"rendered":"Donovan Richards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Green cred:<\/strong> Richards chairs the New York City Council\u2019s Environmental Protection Committee. His district in Southeastern Queens is low-lying and includes stretches of waterfront and wetlands, so he has witnessed the impact of flooding firsthand, especially during extreme storms like 2012\u2019s Hurricane Sandy. Parts of Southeastern Queens, a predominantly working-class, African-American collection of neighborhoods, had no street storm-sewer system. Richards wrote and passed a bill providing funding to finally correct that. \u201cThis was an area neglected,\u201d says Richards. He has also sponsored and passed a series of climate actions on the Council, including resolutions opposing the Port Ambrose liquefied natural gas terminal and fracking in New York State, both of which Gov. Cuomo went on reject.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMy public housing residents &#8212; the climate march [of 2014] was an awakening for them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>What to expect in 2016:<\/strong> Richards has a bill that would require commercial buildings to shut off their lights at midnight. \u201cParis, the City of Light, has an ordinance requiring that,\u201d he notes. Richards also has a bill to create a city office of solar energy to help people who want to add solar installations in their homes, and another to create more electric vehicle charging stations. In 2014, the city adopted a goal of cutting 80 percent of its emissions by 2050. Now, Richards wants the city government to aim for a 40 percent cut in its own emissions by 2030.<\/p>\n<p><strong>All in on the climate:<\/strong> Richards\u2019s district includes large public housing projects. He says that his constituents are highly engaged on climate change. \u201cMy public housing residents &#8212; the climate march [of 2014] was an awakening for them,\u201d says Richards. \u201cThey\u2019re out there marching and talking about cutting emissions and making [public housing] developments more resilient in tenant meetings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fan of:<\/strong> The New York Yankees &#8212; despite being from Queens, where the Mets play. \u201cI was sort of disheartened, going to all these Mets games as kid and they would lose,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the leaders shaping green in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54839989,"featured_media":490324,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[1],"class_list":["post-317551","grist-50-profiles","type-grist-50-profiles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","grist-50-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium 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