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On August 11th, NYLCV co-hosted a policy roundtable focused on lead service line replacement with Congressman Paul Tonko, the representative for New York’s 20th congressional district, held at his district office in Albany.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The NYC Department of Sanitation will resume its program to collect residential organic waste. Residents must sign up to request the service, either through an online form or by calling 311.