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18 Co-sponsors
History
- Print number 933a
- Amend and recommit to environmental conservation
- Referred to environmental conservation
- Referred to environmental conservation
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Title of bill
An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to global warming pollution control
Purpose or general idea of bill
The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to promulgate rules and regulations establishing limits on greenhouse gas emissions.
Summary of provisions
This bill would:
*define greenhouse gas to include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydro fluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, sulfur hexafluroide, and any other gas determined by the DEC to be a significant contributor to global warming;
*authorize the DEC to promulgate rules and regulations, by May 1, 2017, requiring annual greenhouse gas emission reporting from greenhouse gas emission sources;
*require the DEC to issue a report on the annual greenhouse gas emissions and the progress made in achieving reduction efforts;
*require the DEC, after a public hearing, to promulgate rules and regulations establishing a limit on greenhouse gas emissions;
*require the emissions limit to: Be less than the aggregate level of emissions for 1990; Decrease by an additional ten percent every 5 years, beginning with a reduction of 20 percent by 2023; and Be less than 80 percent of the initial limit by 2053
*prohibit DEC from adopting a regulation that would place or increase an additional environmental or health burden on a community that has a higher level of regulated air contaminant source emissions within the community as compared with the county average; and,
*require DEC to include a plan to address adaptation to climate change.
Justification
Global warming will have detrimental effects on the economic wellbeing, public health, natural resources and the environment. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, projected that temperatures would rise more rapidly if greenhouse gases are not abated. The Panel concluded that reducing emissions 80 percent below current emissions by mid-century would prevent the worst impacts of global warming. This legislation seeks to accomplish that goal and at the same time provide opportunity for public involvement and input into the regulatory process in order to ensure that the resulting emission limits do not impose undue environmental or economic hardship. Seven other states have adopted laws to establish greenhouse gas emission standards.
Prior legislative history
2013-14: S.735 2011-12: S.2742-B/A.5346-A(Sweeney) (Passed Assembly 2012) 2009-10: S.4315-C (Thompson)/A.11507-B(Sweeney) 2008: S.8100 (Thompson)/A.10302 Sweeney
Fiscal implications for state and local governments
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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