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Sonal Jessel

Senior Program Director, Building Power Resource Center · 1 appearance on the record.

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Sonal Jessel specializes in environmental justice, urban heat island effects, healthy housing, and equitable building decarbonization. She previously served as Director of Policy at WE ACT for Environmental Justice and now serves as Senior Program Director at the Building Power Resource Center.

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1 assertion · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Sonal argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Jessel: Only 4% of NY HEAP funding goes to cooling assistance
“Right now, only about four percent of the funding goes to the cooling assistance program out of the heat pot, and it only pays for in one air conditioning unit up to an 800 dollar in value every five years for a household.”
Sonal Jessel Sep 7, 2022 ▶ 12:42 Why heat waves become deadly

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Assertion Supported
Jessel: Only 4% of NY HEAP funding goes to cooling assistance
“Right now, only about four percent of the funding goes to the cooling assistance program out of the heat pot, and it only pays for in one air conditioning unit up to an 800 dollar in value every five years for a household.”
Sonal Jessel Sep 7, 2022 ▶ 12:42 Why heat waves become deadly
Insight
Jessel: Vulnerable residents respond better to trusted neighbors than government outreach
“Most people are more likely to respond more positively and answer the phone for people that they know and know are checking on them, so And people that they trust specifically.”
Sonal Jessel Sep 7, 2022 ▶ 16:09 Why heat waves become deadly

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Why heat waves become deadly Sep 7, 2022 5m
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