The Sierra Club on Monday is set to launch a new campaign pushing for the full implementation of a landmark law in New York meant to limit the impact of climate change by phasing in cleaner, more renewable forms of energy.

The group is calling for the enactment of the Climate Leader and Community Protection Act as smaller and more narrow debates take place over how to make the transition. State lawmakers are debating legislation meant to make the energy transition with electric buildings as well as phasing out gas-powered cars and trucks.

The campaign is also being launched as a statewide taskforce on the law's implementation is meeting to discuss how to incorporate its goals into the state's regulatory framework known as a Scoping Plan.

"Passage of the CLCPA marked a major turning point in New York’s reckoning with the climate crisis and environmental injustice, but without a final Scoping Plan that implements the law in a way that stops the expansion of our reliance on fossil fuels and starts dramatically scaling up renewable energy and electrification, the CLCPA will just be an empty commitment,” said Allison Considine, Senior Campaign Representative for the Sierra Club. “A scoping plan with delays or half measures would be unconscionable, and the Climate Action Council and Gov. Hochul must be accountable to the people of New York, who have spent decades choking on polluted air and left with no option but to rely on fossil fuels at the expense of people and the planet."

Some environmental groups in recent weeks have raised concerns the climate law's goals could be watered down through the task force.

They must shake off the stranglehold the fossil fuel industry has on energy planning and climate decisions and do what is necessary to make the CLCPA’s goals a reality, or risk undermining New York’s claim to climate leadership and our future," Considine said.

The group is launching a digital campaign to highlight the issue, including a video highlighting recent flash flooding in the New York City area.

New York's goal is to phase out gas from new buildings by 2024 and reach zero emissions electricity by 2040.