Latest State Wides

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.

To create the next generation of environmental leaders who will achieve climate goals, three bills are aiming to establish a curriculum for public schools to educate youth about current and future environmental challenges.

A coalition of organizations in New York is working to implement a social cost of carbon dioxide to help decarbonize the state’s electricity sector.

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.

On January 13, 2020, the Department of Public Service Staff issued the Staff Whitepaper Regarding Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment and Infrastructure. Staff proposals are in line with the expected growth of EV industry in the state, and New York’s goal to deploy 850,000 zero-emission vehicles by 2025. 

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.