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With just over a week left before a decision must be made, elected officials gathered in Queens yesterday morning to put pressure on the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Governor Hochul to deny a permit for two new fracked gas vaporizers that National Grid is trying to build at its Greenpoint facility. 

U.S. Congresswomen Carolyn Maloney and Nydia Velázquez, Councilmembers Lincoln Restler and Sandy Nurse, and a spokesperson for Councilmember Jennifer Gutiérrez were all present on the banks of the Newtown Creek in Maspeth, Queens, where across the water, the large white National Grid gas tanks loomed.