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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

(Archived committee updates)

• Environment Committee Update, January 5, 2012
  • Environment Committee Meeting Time Change
  • State of the State
  • DEC Proposes Regulations to Meet the Power NY Act of 2011 Requirements
  • Water Withdrawal
  • Best Available Retrofit Technology for Heavy Duty Vehicles Hearings
    
    
• 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
  • OSHA issues hazard alert to hair salon owners, workers on hair products that could release formaldehyde, 5/19/11
    
    
• February 25, 2011
  • Assembly Environment Committee Advances Mercury Containing Thermostat Recycling Bill
  • DEC To Accept Applications for Environmental Excellence Awards
  • DEC Extends Comment Period on Environmental Assessment Forms
    
    
• January 31, 2011
  
  • Business Council Environment Committee to Meet with Clean Water Collaborative
  • New York State Climate Action Plan Interim Report
  • DEC Files Part 231 revisions with the Department of State as an Emergency Rulemaking
  • DEC Environmental Assessment Form

Budget

• Overview FY 2011-12 Executive Budget

2011-12 Legislative Memos

(Archived Legislative Memos)

• A.688 (Jaffee) / S.3888 (Grisanti), Support, Mercury-Added Consumer Products
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• A.2108 (Lifton) / S.893 (Krueger), Oppose, Natural Gas Extraction Liability Act, 6/1/11
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• S.2406 (Marcellino) / A.4319 (Englebright), Support, Licensing Professional Geologists, 6/6/11
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• A.2467 (Lifton), Oppose, Liens Against Expenditures, 6/1/2011
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• A.2675 (Colton), Oppose, “Record of Compliance”, 5/6/11
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• 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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• A.3141 (Sweeney) / S.1526 (Perkins), Oppose, Toxic Chemicals in Children’s Products, 5/6/11
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• A.3374 (Sweeney), Oppose, Definition of Freshwater Wetlands, 3/11/2011
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• A.3485 (Sweeney, Oppose, Mercury-Containing Thermostat Recycling, 2/23/2011
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• S.3798 (Grisanti) / A.5318-A (Sweeney), Support, Water Withdrawal Permits, 3/11/2011
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• S.4323 (Grisanti) / A.7483 (Gantt), Support, Sale of Metal Beverage Containers with Detachable Caps, 6/6/2011
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• S.4345-B, Oppose, Mercury Thermostat Collection, 6/16/2011
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• S.4618 (Avella) / A.3279 (Sweeney), Oppose, Standing for SEQRA Violations, 4/20/11
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• A.4801 (Kavanaugh), Oppose, Citizen Suits, 4/1/11
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• S.4833 (Avella), Oppose, Mercury-Containing Thermostat Recycling, 5/9/11
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• S.5228 (Grisanti), Support, Brownfield Cleanup Program, 5/13/11
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• S.5323-B (Robach) /A.7229-B (Morelle), Support, Hazardous waste fees and surcharges, 6/19/2011
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• A.5346 (Sweeney), Oppose, Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Limits, 3/11/2011
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• A.7013 (Sweeney) / S.4616 (Avella), Oppose, Uniform Treatment of Waste, 6/1/11
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• A.7400 (Sweeney) / S.5592 (Carlucci), Oppose, Moratorium on Hydraulic Fracturing, 1/9/12
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• A.7868 (Lentol), Oppose, Siting of Radioactive or Hazardous Waste Disposal Stations, 6/14/2011
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