Public Health News

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.

NYLCV NYC Program Associate Carlos Castell Croke testified at the City Council Finance Committee Executive Budget hearing. We advocated for funding for parks as well as staffing in critical environmental offices.

We recently held a policy forum on instituting a Clean Fuel Standard, which would transform the fuels market from one that relies nearly exclusively on petroleum to one that employs a variety of cleaner alternatives including electricity.

NYLCV joined two dozen environmental groups from across New York to lobby more than 60 members of the state legislature on 10 bills to advance environmental justice, protect drinking water, ban harmful chemicals, support sustainable waste management, and protect natural habitats. Several of the bills included are NYLCV priorities and are likely to appear on our legislative scorecard later this year. 

Jobs to Move America released a report which found that switching from diesel buses to electric buses will decrease toxic pollution, reduce the risk of asthma for children riding on the buses, and create good-paying green jobs

We're excited to release latest NYC Council Environmental Scorecard, in which Council Members are evaluated based on their support of environmental issues

We are excited to release our new report “5 is the New 15” about how strengthening the 2016 Safe School Drinking