New York voters this fall will consider a $4.2 billion bond act meant to shore up the state's infrastructure to curtail the worst effects of climate change. 

And environmental organizations, business groups and labor unions are planning a major push to get the issue on voters' minds this year. 

In an interview with Capital Tonight on Wednesday, The Nature Conservancy's Jessica Ottney Mahar pointed to the successful campaign last year to approve the so-called "green amendment" to the state's constitution that is meant to guarantee a right to a clean environment in New York. 

"We need to make sure we do that again and talk to voters about why this measure is important for their communities and future generations," she said. 

The borrowing plan has been supported by labor unions in addition to environmental groups in New York since its initial inception by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo (a similar version of the bond act was shelved at the onset of the pandemic). 

"This is something — clean water, clean air and create jobs in New York — this is something everyone can get behind," Ottney Mahar said.