Well done.
This is bigger than any single solar field or wind project.
It’s about whether the State of New York is bound by the same laws, environmental standards, and due process requirements it imposes on everyone else.
No matter where you stand on renewable energy, you should be concerned when Albany sidelines local communities, overrides land use, and treats environmental review as optional when it becomes politically inconvenient.
Transparency. Due process. Public participation. The rule of law.
Those aren’t obstacles to progress. They’re the foundation of public trust.
Well done Alex Fasulo, the Town of Glen, and everyone willing to stand up and demand accountability. If state government can ignore its own rules to achieve a preferred outcome, then those rules don’t mean much at all.
New Yorkers deserve an energy policy that can withstand scrutiny—not one that depends on avoiding it.
On Friday, June 12th, 2026, I, in my capacity as the president of the American Land Rescue Fund with the Town of Glen, New York, filed a lawsuit against the Office of Renewable Energy Siting over the legality of the RAPID Act implementing regulations.
This is now bigger than Fort Edward.
I promise that we are doing everything we can to spare every single town in New York State that has, against its will, been sited as a location for a solar or wind complex.
This lawsuit does just that.
The petition argues violations of SAPA rulemaking requirements, SEQRA environmental review requirements, procedural due process in the adoption process, and the validity of 16 NYCRR Parts 1100, 1101, and 1102 as adopted regulations.
This case is about transparency, public participation, environmental review, and the rule of law.
Without our home rule and the ability to call out our state government for overriding environmental regulations, we have no rule of law in New York State.
It's time to get our home rule back.
This is a 75-page monster of a petition that our genius attorney put together. It's bold, aggressive, and exactly what's needed if we stand a chance at taking these authoritarian agencies on in court.
There is much more to come. Linking to the petition below.