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ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE / OSH
Staff Contact: Darren Suarez
What's New
- Business Council Comments on High Volume Hydrolic Fracturing proposed regulation and revised GEIS
- Testimony to
Assembly Standing Committees on Environmental Conservation, Health and Consumer Affairs and Protection.
An Examination of the State’s Role in Issues Related to the Regulation of Children’s Products, December 5, 2011
- Hydraulic Fracturing: Unlocking New York's Natural Gas Resources
- The Business Council sounds off on pro-drilling coalition (video)
- New York State DEC Announces Two Part 201 Stakeholder Meetings
- Business Council backs shale development plan that creates jobs and economic growth (July 1, 2011)
- End of Legislative Session Update
- OSHA issues hazard alert to hair salon owners, workers on hair products that could release formaldehyde
Committee Updates and Alert
- Environment Committee Update, January 5, 2012
- Environment Committee Update, December 7, 2011
- January 23 Environment Committee Meeting
- Testimony on Chemical Registry
- New York Works Infacastructure Fund: To Suport Environmental Infrastructure
- DEC Extends Comment Period
- Senate to Hold Hearing on Hydrofracturing
- Part 201
- Water Withdrawal
- Best Available Retrofit Technology for Heavy Duty Vehicles
- New York State DEC Announces Two Part 201 Stakeholder Meetings, October 26, 2011
- Environment Committee Alert, October 25, 2011
Hazardous Waste Regulatory Fee Changes
- Environment Committee Alert, September 7, 2011
Release of "Economic Assessment Report for the Supplemental Generic EIS on New York State's Oil, Gas, and Solution Mining Regulatory Program."
- Environment Committee Alert, September 2, 2011
Withdrawal of Draft Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards
- Environment Committee Alert, July 29, 2011
Reform to the state environmental quality review act (SEQRA)
- Environment Committee Alert:
DEC Press Conference July 1, 2011
The DEC Commissioner Joe Martens outlined the revised recommendation on high volume hydraulic fracturing
- End of Legislative Session Update
- May 19, 2011
- February 25, 2011
- January 31, 2011
Budget
2011-12 Legislative Memos
- A.688 (Jaffee) / S.3888 (Grisanti), Support, Mercury-Added Consumer Products
Bill text - A.2108 (Lifton) / S.893 (Krueger), Oppose, Natural Gas Extraction Liability Act, 6/1/11
Bill text - S.2406 (Marcellino) / A.4319 (Englebright), Support, Licensing Professional Geologists, 6/6/11
Bill text - A.2467 (Lifton), Oppose, Liens Against Expenditures, 6/1/2011
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- A.2675 (Colton), Oppose, “Record of Compliance”, 5/6/11
Bill text - S.2877-A (Grisanti) / A.5270 (Canestrari), Support, Reduction of Minimum Reverse Vending Machines, 4/1/11
- A.2922 (Sweeney) / S.425 (Krueger), Oppose, Use of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids, 6/1/11
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Bill text - A.3141 (Sweeney) / S.1526 (Perkins), Oppose, Toxic Chemicals in Children’s Products, 5/6/11
Bill text - A.3374 (Sweeney), Oppose, Definition of Freshwater Wetlands, 3/11/2011
Bill text - A.3485 (Sweeney, Oppose, Mercury-Containing Thermostat Recycling, 2/23/2011
Bill text - S.3798 (Grisanti) / A.5318-A (Sweeney), Support, Water Withdrawal Permits, 3/11/2011
Bill text - S.4323 (Grisanti) / A.7483 (Gantt), Support, Sale of Metal Beverage Containers with Detachable Caps, 6/6/2011
Bill text - S.4345-B, Oppose, Mercury Thermostat Collection, 6/16/2011
Bill text - S.4618 (Avella) / A.3279 (Sweeney), Oppose, Standing for SEQRA Violations, 4/20/11
Bill text - A.4801 (Kavanaugh), Oppose, Citizen Suits, 4/1/11
Bill text - S.4833 (Avella), Oppose, Mercury-Containing Thermostat Recycling, 5/9/11
Bill text - S.5228 (Grisanti), Support, Brownfield Cleanup Program, 5/13/11
Bill text - S.5323-B (Robach) /A.7229-B (Morelle), Support, Hazardous waste fees and surcharges, 6/19/2011
Bill text - A.5346 (Sweeney), Oppose, Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Limits, 3/11/2011
Bill text - A.7013 (Sweeney) / S.4616 (Avella), Oppose, Uniform Treatment of Waste, 6/1/11
Bill text - A.7400 (Sweeney) / S.5592 (Carlucci), Oppose, Moratorium on Hydraulic Fracturing, 1/9/12
Bill text - A.7868 (Lentol), Oppose, Siting of Radioactive or Hazardous Waste Disposal Stations, 6/14/2011
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