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EPL/Environmental Advocates THE NATION NEEDS NEW YORK Each January, the state Legislature gathers for a six-month session to grapple with the pressing issues of the day and to advance public policy that will make our state a better place in which we live, work, and play. Over the years, New York has set the tone for enacting bold laws to protect the environment, to cut pollution, and to improve the health of our communities and people. In the late 1800s we enacted the forever-wild provision of the state Constitution; in the 1980s we adopted the nation’s first acid rain law and the bottle bill; and, we have the most comprehensive environmental quality review act in the nation. It is truly breathtaking what can be achieved when the Legislature focuses and commits to protecting the environment. The 1993 session is a prime example of what is possible – in that year, agreements were forged to enact the Long Island Pine Barrens Protection Act, the Environmental Protection Fund, and the Clean Air Compliance Act! We chose an image for this year’s cover that depicts all that is at-risk if our leaders fail. For sure we have made enormous progress that we don’t want to lose. But, community character continues to be challenged by overdevelopment, we struggle to provide safe water for drinking, and we have too many people exposed to air pollution that can make them sick. As we bear witness to what is shaping up as the most anti-environment federal government (Congress and the Administration sharing this equally), the question for all New Yorkers is: are our leaders ready to embrace the challenge and demonstrate to the nation how strong environmental laws and standards lead to the progress and prosperity we all need? 2 EPL/Environmental Advocates is one of the first TABLE OF organizations in the nation formed to advocate for the future of a state’s environment and the health of its citizens. CONTENTS Through lobbying, advocacy, coalition building, citizen education, and policy development, EPL/Environmental Advocates has been New York’s environmental conscience 4 A quick look at the scores more than for 45 years. We work to ensure environmental & Scorecard at a glance laws are enforced, tough new measures are enacted, and the public is informed of — and participates in — 5 2017 session overview important policy debates. EPL/Environmental Advocates is a nonprofit corporation tax exempt under section 501(c)(4) Oil slick award 9 of the Internal Revenue Code. 10 Senate scores EPL/Environmental Advocates 353 Hamilton Street Assembly scores 14 Albany, NY 12210 Status of 24 Bill summaries (518) 462-5526 Governor’s www.eplscorecard.org action 27 How to support our work Bill description S.5549A S.6317 S.6157B l l How to Read the Scorecard: l S.6750 Correct l Environmental Vote Party & District 2017 Score 2016 Score Clean Water Bond Act l S.3772B Good Medicine Ramping Up Energy StorageAccessible l S.5190 Septic ReplacementTanker-Avoidance Zones lExpanding S.5197B Central Pine BarrensSolar Panel Takeback ProgramRenewable l S.2837 Energy Retention Act 5 6 10 13 14 15 16 17 Governor Andrew M. Cuomo (D) ? ? ? ? ? Liz Krueger (D-28/Manhattan) 100 92 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Andrew J. Lanza (R-24/Staten Island) 71 57 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 William J. Larkin, Jr. (R-39/New Windsor) 68 57 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 George Latimer (D-37/Port Chester) 100 92 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Kenneth P. LaValle (R-1/Mount Sinai) 77 68 4 4 4 4 4 4 N 4 Elizabeth O’C. Little (R-45/Glens Falls) 71 57 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Carl L. Marcellino (R-5/Oyster Bay) 78 65 N 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Kathleen Marchione (R-43/Halfmoon) 68 57 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Velmanette Montgomery (D-25/Brooklyn) 100 92 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Terrence P. Murphy (R-40/Brewster) 79 69 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Thomas F. O’Mara (R-58/Elmira) 68 65 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Robert G. Ortt (R-62/Lockport) 53 57 8 4 4 4 4 8 4 4 Kevin S. Parker (D-21/Brooklyn) 100 91 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 José R. Peralta (D-13/Queens) 82 81 4 4 4 4 4 4 Not4 in office/4 excused absence Roxanne J. Persaud (D-19/Brooklyn) 82 82 4 4 4Incorrect4 4 4 4 4 not scored Elaine Phillips (R-7/Mineola) 71 N/A 4 4 Environmental4 4 4 4 4 4 Michael H. Ranzenhofer (R-61/Williamsville) 77 57 4 4 4 Vote4 4 4 4 4 3 Patricia A. Ritchie (R-48/Watertown) 76 62 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 J. Gustavo Rivera (D-33/Bronx) 100 92 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Joseph E. Robach (R-56/Rochester) 71 57 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 James Sanders, Jr. (D-10/Queens) 68 84 4 8 4 4 8 4 4 8 Diane J. Savino (D-23/Staten Island) 70 69 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Susan J. Serino (R-41/Poughkeepsie) 68 57 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 José Serrano (D-29/Manhattan) 100 92 4 4 N 4 4 N 4 4 James L. Seward (R-51/Oneonta) 68 57 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Daniel Squadron (D-26/Manhattan) 100 92 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Toby Ann Stavisky (D-16/Queens) 91 84 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-35/Yonkers) 100 92 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 James Tedisco (R-49/Clifton Park) 71 N/A 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 David J. Valesky (D-53/Syracuse) 79 69 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Catharine M. Young (R-57/Olean) 71 57 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 KEY: Correct environmental vote, Incorrect environmental vote (includes unexcused absences), N Not in office/excused (not scored), INC Incomplete score, N/A Not in Office. 12 GOVERNOR’S ACTION: S Signed into law, V Vetoed, ? Awaiting action at time of print. A blank space means bill did not pass both houses. A quick look at leaders’ scores The Scorecard at a glance 100 78 Speaker Carl Heastie (D) Number of Assembly Members 100 who earned 100s Senate Minority Leader 16 Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D) Number of Senators 100 who earned 100s Assembly Environmental Conservation 8 Chair Steve Englebright (D) The number of bills passed 100 by both houses Assembly Energy Chair Amy Paulin (D) 4 Number of “Smokestack” bills passed 71 by the Senate in 2017 Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R) 12 Number of Assembly Members 71 who earned a failing score Senate Majority Coalition Leader Jeff Klein (D) 2 Number of Senators who 68 earned a failing score Senate Environmental Conservation Chair Thomas O’Mara (R) 68 Senate Energy Chair Joseph Griffo (R) 62 Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R) 4 2017: THE BIG PICTURE The Environmental Scorecard reports on the way legislators within our charts that for the second year in a row there voted on key environmental issues, and it tells the tale of are no “smokestack bills” for the Assembly. The Speaker the annual state Legislative Session. But, there is no way also put comprehensive climate and clean energy to accurately tell the story of the 2017 Session without a legislation into the Assembly’s state budget proposal reminder of the painful backdrop in which it began: the and brought the measure up for a vote on its own inauguration of President Donald Trump. where it received broad bipartisan support. Just as New York’s Legislative Session got underway, the Budget Green president-elect’s cabinet picks were moving through the State budgets are the focal point of the annual Legislative confirmation process in the U.S. Senate, and it was clear Session. Along with appropriations totaling more than we would be faced with the most anti-environmental- $160 billion, key policy matters go along for the ride as federal-government ever assembled. Two key choices he legislative leaders and the Governor horse-trade and made – former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson as Secretary deal. This year, the budget produced some great wins for of State and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt (who made a the environment. Along with another $300 million for name for himself in Oklahoma by bending over backwards the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) there emerged to put the gas and oil industry’s interests above public bipartisan agreement for a $2.5 billion investment in good) – were precursors to the breathtaking threats that clean water infrastructure and source water protection. New Yorkers face under the Trump administration. This is short of the tens of billions of dollars needed for Given the situation in our nation’s capital, it was clear that the next two decades, but is a nice down payment and our environment and health would only be protected recognition of the enormity of the problem. if the “laboratories” of environmental policy, states like Additionally, in response to water crises in several California and New York in particular, stepped into the communities statewide, in 2016 the Legislature breach. So, the 2017 Session was the perfect opportunity held a series of oversight hearings.
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