Water News: State Wide

Green infrastructure includes projects that mimic the natural environment to manage stormwater runoff, improve air quality, and cool temperatures throughout the city to mitigate the urban heat island effect. 

During the General Election in November, New Yorkers will be able to vote to approve the Bond Act, which would be hugely advantageous for sustainability and resiliency efforts in New York. 

New York State passed a strong, pro-environment budget last week. It includes policies we have been advocating for over many years and included as top priorities in this year's State Policy Agenda.

In 2016, New York State enacted the toughest law in the nation to protect public school children from exposure to elevated levels of lead in their drinking water. A new bill introduced in the New York State legislature is proposing to make public school drinking water safer and freer of lead by tightening of existing regulations.

Two recent UN reports indicate that the world’s ecosystems and climate are already undergoing dramatic change, and that parties to the Paris Agreement have failed to halt greenhouse gas emission growth.

New York State’s Environmental Protection Fund supports a wide variety of environmental projects through four programs, which focus on solid waste, parks and recreation, open space, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Many towns in New York State are currently suffering from harmful algal blooms. In order to combat them, the Department of Environmental Conservation is using monitoring technology developed by the U.S. Geological Survey to detect HABs early.