Includes provisions where it is the duty of the department of environmental conservation to establish a method for individuals and businesses to calculate their greenhouse gas emissions and best management and procurement practices for state agencies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4914
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 27, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. THOMPSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
including provisions where it is the duty of the department of envi-
ronmental conservation to establish a method for individuals and busi-
nesses to calculate their greenhouse gas emissions and best management
and procurement practices for state agencies to reduce their green-
house gas emissions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 19-0301 of the environmental
2 conservation law is amended by adding two new paragraphs f and g to read
3 as follows:
4 f. Establish and promote on the department's website, a means for
5 individuals and businesses to calculate their greenhouse gas emissions
6 and offer recommendations on steps to reduce such emissions.
7 g. Develop, in consultation with the state energy research and devel-
8 opment authority and the climate change task force, best management and
9 procurement practices for state agencies to reduce their greenhouse gas
10 emissions and assist such agencies in their implementation.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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