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BILL RATINGS 2010
Every week during the New York State Legislative Session, Environmental Advocates of New York reviews all of the bills introduced in legislative committees or on the floor of the State Senate or the Assembly. We then issue a memo that summarizes the legislation and also describes our position on measures with significant environmental impact.

The purpose of Environmental Advocates' rating system is to weight bills according to their potential impacts, either beneficial or detrimental, on New York's environment. The "Trees and Smokestacks" rating system is designed to place appropriate emphasis on each bill. At the end of the session, these weighted votes will be totaled to arrive at a final score for each legislator.

Click here to see the bill ratings from the 2009 Legislative Session.

 

MEMO

SUMMARY & EVALUATION

RATING

STATUS

ASSEMBLY BILL

SENATE BILL

1 Utility Distributed Generation Reporting

Assembly Calendar

A.237-B (Hevesi, et al.) S.1660-A (Perkins)
2 Ulster County Community Preservation Fund Assembly Calendar A.593 (Cahill)  
3 Public Access to Information Assembly Calendar A.838 (Dinowitz, et al.) S.2093 (Thompson)
4 Farm Dam Safety Exemption Assembly Calendar A.976-A (Gunther, et al) S.2429 (Young)
5 Recyclables in Landfills Assembly Calendar A.1319 (Colton, et al.)  
6 Wetland Neighbor Notification Assembly Calendar A.2654 (Cusick, et al.) S.507 (Lanza)
7 Orange County Community Preservation Act Assembly Calendar A.2727 (Rabbitt, Gunther.)  
8 State Agencies Greenhouse Gas Audit Assembly Calendar A.3419 (Sweeney, et al.) S.5689 (Thompson)
9 Environmental Justice & Permits Assembly Calendar A.4245 (Brodsky, et al.) S.5778 (Thompson)
10 Citizen Suits Assembly Calendar A.4272 (Brodsky, et al.) S.1730 (Schneiderman, Thompson)
11 Private Well Testing Assembly Calendar A.4557 (Jaffee, et al.) S.2678 (Morahan, Hannon)
12 Increased Penalties for Wetland Violations Assembly Calendar A.4807 (Sweeney, et al.) S.6145 (Schneiderman)
13 Nuclear Preparedness Assembly Calendar A.5193-A (Brodsky, et al.) S.4598-A (Stewart-Cousins)
14 Power Procurement Assembly Calendar A.5409 (Brennan, et al.)  
15 Solid Waste Management Facilities Assembly Calendar A.5765 (Sweeney, et. al) S.3777 (Thompson)
16A Climate Change Solutions Fund Assembly Calendar A.7017 (Gianaris, et. al) S.5641 (Thompson, et al)
16B Climate Change Solutions Act Assembly Calendar A.6321 (Sweeney, et. al) S.2764 (Thompson, et al.)
17 Wetlands Protection Assembly Calendar A.6363 (Sweeney, et al.)  
18 Assembly BPA Ban Assembly Calendar A.6919-B (Englebright, et al.)  
19 Healthy Green Procurement Assembly Calendar A.7038 (Sweeney, et al.) S.4991 (Thompson, et al.)
20 Outdoor Lighting Assembly Calendar A.7281 (Rosenthal, et al.) S.2714 (Thompson, Parker)
21 Net Metering Fix
See Memo #35
See Memo #35 A.7557 (Cahill, et al.)
See Memo #35
S.4993 (Thompson, et al.) See Memo #35
22 Global Warming Pollution Cap In Senate Committee A.7572 (Sweeney, et. al)
*not same as
S.4315-A (Thompson, et al.)
*not same as
23 Deca-Flame Retardant Ban Assembly Calendar A.7573 (Sweeney, et al.)  
24 On-bill Financing Natural Gas Efficiency Assembly Calendar A.7736 (John, et al.) S.3712 (Parker, et al.)
25 Environmental Impact Reports Assembly Calendar A.8489 (Peoples-Stokes, Rosenthal)  
26 Environmental Justice Advisory Group Assembly Calendar A.8490-A (Peoples-Stokes, Rosenthal)  
27 Ultra Low Sulfur Oil Requirement In Senate Committee A.8642 (Sweeney,et al.)
 
S.1145-A (Perkins, et al.)
 
28 Assembly Article 10 Assembly Calendar A.8696 (Cahill, Spano)  
29 Electronic Waste Recycling Act Assembly Calendar A.9049 (Sweeney, et al.) S.6047 (Thompson, et al.)
30 Recycling Rechargeable Batteries In Senate Committee A.6813-B (Kavanagh, et al.) S.3593-B (Krueger, et al.)
31 Environmental Access to Justice In Senate Committee A.9480 (Sweeney, et al.) S.1635 (Thompson)
32 Environmental Justice for All In Senate Committee   S.4407 (Schneiderman, Thompson)
33 Islip Incinerator Expansion In Senate Committee A.9455 (Fields) S.6171 (Foley)
34 Green Roof Tax Credits In Senate Committee   S.2763-A (Thompson)
35 Net Metering Fix In Senate Committee A.7557-A (Cahill, et al.) S.6700 (Maziarz, et al.)
36 Environmental Compliance Records In Senate Committee A.4110-A (Brodsky) S.4950-A (Thompson)
37 Saltwater Fishing License Repealer In Senate Committee A.9234 (Sweeney, et al.) S.6250 (Foley)
38 MTA Payroll Tax Decrease In Senate Committee A.9450 (Thiele) S.6312 (Foley, et al.)
39 Construction Debris Recycling In Assembly Committee A.1264 (Colton) S.5103 (Savino)
40 Truck Idling Prohibition In Senate Committee A.8238-A (Kavanagh) S.5287-A (Squadron, et al.)
41 Green Power Purchasing In Senate Committee A.7096-A (Galef, et al.) S.4599-A (Stewart-Cousins, et al.)
42 Homeowners Insurance for
Oil Spills
In Assembly Committee A.8562 (Weisenberg) S.5818 (Dilan)

 

TREES & SMOKESTACKS RATING SYSTEM 

Legislation would be of significant benefit to help resolve a pressing problem facing New York's environment.

Legislation is likely to result in major or lasting harm to some aspect of New York's environment.

Legislation would provide substantial benefit to New York's environment.

Legislation would do substantial harm to New York's environment.

Legislation would be beneficial to some aspect of New York's environment.

Legislation would be detrimental to environmental causes in New York.


SUPER BILLS
 
Every year, a few bills are identified as environmental priorities, or "Super Bills." The Super Bills are all three-tree bills, and are included as part of lawmakers’ scores in our sister organization's (EPL/Environmental Advocates) Voters' Guide, even if the legislation does not reach the floor of the Senate or Assembly for a vote. Click here for more info.