75-0115 – Community Air Monitoring Program.
§ 75-0115. Community air monitoring program. 1. For purposes of this section, the following definitions and related provisions shall apply: a. “Community air monitoring system” means advanced sensing monitoring equipment that measures and records air pollutant concentrations in the ambient air at or near sensitive receptor locations in disadvantaged communities. b. “Disadvantaged community” means a […]
75-0117 – Investment of Funds.
§ 75-0117. Investment of funds. State agencies, authorities and entities, in consultation with the environmental justice working group and the climate action council, shall, to the extent practicable, invest or direct available and relevant programmatic resources in a manner designed to achieve a goal for disadvantaged communities to receive forty percent of overall benefits of […]
75-0119 – Implementation Reporting.
§ 75-0119. Implementation reporting. 1. The department in consultation with the council shall, not less than every four years, publish a report which shall include recommendations regarding the implementation of greenhouse gas reduction measures. 2. The report shall, at minimum, include: a. Whether the state is on track to meet the statewide greenhouse gas emissions […]
75-0103 – New York State Climate Action Council.
§ 75-0103. New York state climate action council. 1. There is hereby established the New York state climate action council (“council”) which shall consist of the following twenty-two members: a. the commissioners of transportation, health, economic development, agriculture and markets, housing and community renewal, environmental conservation, labor, the chairperson of the public service commission, the […]
75-0105 – Statewide Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report.
§ 75-0105. Statewide greenhouse gas emissions report. 1. No later than two years after the effective date of this article, and each year thereafter, the department shall issue a report on statewide greenhouse gas emissions, expressed in tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, from all greenhouse gas emission sources in the state, including the relative contribution […]
75-0107 – Statewide Greenhouse Gas Emissions Limits.
§ 75-0107. Statewide greenhouse gas emissions limits. 1. No later than one year after the effective date of this article, the department shall, pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated after at least one public hearing, establish a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit as a percentage of 1990 emissions, as estimated pursuant to section 75-0105 of […]
75-0109 – Promulgation of Regulations to Achieve Statewide Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions.
§ 75-0109. Promulgation of regulations to achieve statewide greenhouse gas emissions reductions. 1. No later than four years after the effective date of this article, the department, after public workshops and consultation with the council, the environmental justice advisory group, and the climate justice working group established pursuant to section 75-0111 of this article, representatives […]
75-0111 – Climate Justice Working Group.
§ 75-0111. Climate justice working group. 1. There is hereby created within the department, no later than six months after the effective date of this article, a “climate justice working group”. Such working group will be comprised of representatives from: environmental justice communities, the department, the department of health, the New York state energy and […]
75-0113 – Value of Carbon.
§ 75-0113. Value of carbon. 1. No later than one year after the effective date of this article, the department, in consultation with the New York state energy research and development authority, shall establish a social cost of carbon for use by state agencies, expressed in terms of dollars per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent. […]
73-0103 – Definitions.
* § 73-0103. Definitions. When used in this article: 1. “Adaptive measures” means any adjustment, whether passive, reactive or anticipatory, that may be taken to ameliorate the anticipated adverse consequences associated with flood events. 2. “Flood control study sector” means a particular aspect of the natural or built environment, economy, or society that could potentially […]