Bill Text: NY A03805 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of environmental conservation to establish rules and regulations to reduce significantly high levels of global warming emissions; sets stages for such reductions; establishes a mandatory reporting system to track and monitor such levels.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to environmental conservation [A03805 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03805-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          3805
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 31, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. ORTIZ, GALEF, JAFFEE, LUPARDO, LAVINE, WRIGHT,
          COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  LIFTON,  McDONOUGH,  PERRY,
          L. ROSENTHAL,  TITUS  --  read  once  and referred to the Committee on
          Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          reducing global warming emissions levels
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Legislative findings.  The  legislature  hereby  finds  and
     2  declares it necessary to join the worldwide fight against global warming
     3  and  its  detrimental  impact on the public health, environment, and the
     4  economy of New York state. The legislature  finds  that  global  warming
     5  threatens  New  York  state's  environment and economic security through
     6  projected changes in temperature, precipitation  and  sea  level.  These
     7  changes  harm natural ecosystems, threaten industries including agricul-
     8  ture, forestry, fishing and tourism, and harm the health of New Yorkers.
     9  The legislature finds it necessary to implement a statewide cap on emis-
    10  sions levels and in effectively  doing  so,  to  implement  a  mandatory
    11  reporting system to track and monitor global warming emissions levels.
    12    §  2.  The  environmental  conservation law is amended by adding a new
    13  section 19-0316 to read as follows:
    14  § 19-0316. Reductions in global warming emissions.
    15    1. No later than January first, two thousand twenty, the  commissioner
    16  shall   promulgate   rules  and  regulations  implementing  a  statewide
    17  reduction in global warming emissions in accordance with the  provisions
    18  of  this section. Such rules and regulations shall set permanent caps on
    19  levels of total global warming emissions, which for all sources  subject
    20  to this section shall be as follows:
    21    (a)  as  of  January first, two thousand twenty-two, a fifteen percent
    22  reduction in total emissions;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08189-01-9

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     1    (b) as of January first, two thousand twenty-four,  a  twenty  percent
     2  reduction in total emissions;
     3    (c)  by  two  thousand twenty-nine, a twenty-five percent reduction in
     4  total emissions, at which such level of emissions shall be no more  than
     5  the total emissions level in nineteen hundred ninety; and
     6    (d)  by  two thousand fifty-nine, an eighty percent reduction in total
     7  emissions at which such level of emissions shall be  no  more  than  the
     8  total emissions level in nineteen hundred ninety.
     9    2.  The  commissioner  shall establish a statewide mandatory reporting
    10  system to track and monitor global warming emissions  levels  and  shall
    11  formulate  a plan by which New York state business shall uniformly adapt
    12  and comply with the rules and regulations required by this section.
    13    3. Nothing in this section shall be construed  to  conflict  with  any
    14  other  existing  provision  of law relating to any measures or practices
    15  taken to restrict, reduce or limit any emissions found to contribute  to
    16  global  warming  and  shall not be construed to supersede more stringent
    17  emission limitations or practices applicable on the  effective  date  of
    18  this section or may become applicable after such effective date.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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