That there’s still work to be done is dramatically clear in New York State, where public-power advocates got their win with the Build Public Renewables Act. While strategists in the Democratic Socialists of America plan for the state’s public power workers to grab hold of the planning function and trigger a worldwide cascade of social transformation, the local International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is engaged in some of the worst planning you could possibly imagine, as a headline on the New York Focus website in June of 2022 proclaimed: ELECTRICAL WORKERS UNION FIGHTS TO EXPAND FOSSIL FUEL–POWERED CRYPTO MINING IN NEW YORK. Joined by the AFL-CIO, the IBEW lobbied Governor Kathy Hochul not to sign a bill (she did) that put a moratorium on new proof-of-work cryptocurrency mines powered by fossil fuels. Since cryptocurrencies produce zero social goods, there’s no excuse for them except to appease capital. The IBEW’s legislative council head, Addie Jenne, was clear: The crypto industry can “reignite” disinvested communities through jobs and taxes, Jenne told the Focus, and “provide buzz to attract a certain type of workforce… and attract cluster economic development.”84 It’s not the first time the state’s big unions have backed fossil fuels.ix “We need a realistic approach to meet the state’s bold climate goals and must leave every option on the table,” said the New York State AFL-CIO president, Mario Cilento, in defense of gas-powered energy plants.85