Major Environmental Investments in Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The deal secures an investment of $1.2 trillion, some of which will be used to fund new climate resilience projects, such as electric school buses, EV infrastructure, zero-low emission public transit, the removal of lead pipes & PFAS to improve drinking water, and pollution remediation. These investments are part of a comprehensive effort to both build resilience against the climate crisis and completely stop it in its tracks, and it marks the largest federal investment into infrastructure in U.S. history. 
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Build Back Better: Senate and House Leaders Need to Make Clean Water A Priority in Infrastructure Spending
To help address our clean drinking water crisis, NYLCV signed a letter with the Clean Water for All Coalition urging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to make clean water investments a priority in both the bipartisan and reconciliation infrastructure packages.
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Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan calls on Congress to pass infrastructure and climate plan at virtual roundtable
We recently co-hosted a virtual town hall with mayors from four states in the Mid-Atlantic region, including Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan. The mayors called on Congress to pass the Build Back Better $3.5 trillion infrastructure and climate plan, highlighting the family-sustaining union jobs that would be created with a transformational investment in clean energy.
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A New White House Report on Climate Justice
The White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council recently released a report on recommendations to improve federal climate and environmental justice policy. As work on climate recovery legislation picks up steam in Congress, the insights in this report are more important than ever.
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Urging the EPA to change its Trump-Era Lead Policy
Along with 147 other organizations, NYLCV is urging the EPA to remove the previous administration's harmful revision to the Lead and Copper Rule and instead implement new broad changes to the LCR that would prioritize decreasing lead exposure.
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PFAS Update: Urging Senate Majority Leader Schumer to make Clean Water A Priority
Recently, NYLCV joined a letter urging Senator Schumer to adopt policies from the INVEST Act, which provides necessary funding to remove toxic “PFAS” chemicals from our drinking water.
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Promise and Prudence for U.S. Polluter Import Fee
Earlier this month, U.S. Senate Democrats proposed a polluter import fee that would target imports from nations lacking progressive climate policies. There is an abundance of hope that this fee will make strides in international climate discussion and promote emissions reductions.
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NYLCV Advocates for Strong Federal Climate Agenda
NYLCV is working to hold Congress accountable to the climate, clean energy, justice, and jobs commitments made in President Biden’s original Build Back Better proposal for America's economic and climate recovery in a post-COVID world.
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