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At a budget hearing, our Policy Director Patrick McClellan called for more investment in environmental programs and advocated for policies that will reduce emissions like a clean fuel standard.

Last week, Governor Andrew Cuomo gave his annual State of the State address and included several NYLCV priorities that we are eager to work with the Governor to enact.

Governor Andrew Cuomo recently released a portion of the funding for various initiatives to electrify public transit and school buses in New York. The incentives include $16.4 million for electric bus expansion and an initial installment of $2.5 million for school bus operators statewide to upgrade to cleaner, more sustainable vehicles. 

We're excited to release our green policy priorities - our 2021 New York State Policy Agenda.

Clean transit is a part of the Biden climate plan. NYLCV is hopeful that the Biden administration will prioritize public transit and congestion pricing. We also anticipate the President-elect’s swift actions to advance environmental protection and tackle climate change in 2021.

Now that all of the absentee, early voting, and election day ballots have been counted, we’d like to update you on results.

More than 125 organizations including NYLCV joined together to hold a virtual lobby day in support of a range of environmental programs. Cutting environmental funding in 2021 would be pennywise and pound foolish, and we were glad to find on November 10th that so many of our state legislators agree.