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Oct 18 - Family Fun Weekend (Albany, NY).
Nov 11 - Save the Date for the 2008 Advocate Awards (NYC).
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$3.07. Come January, that’s how much it will cost for a power plant to emit one ton of carbon dioxide pollution in any of the 10 states participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Read The [Green] Capitol Insider.
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Environmental Advocates of New York Calls on Gov. Paterson, State Leaders to Keep RGGI Auction Revenues Clean & Green
(ALBANY, NY)—“Today’s auction of carbon dioxide allowances under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the ‘RGGI’, is a milestone in our nation's response to climate change, and New York is where it all started,” said Robert Moore, Executive Director, Environmental Advocates of New York. Click here to keep reading.

Our Mission
Environmental Advocates of New York is the state's government watchdog, holding lawmakers and agencies accountable for enacting and enforcing laws that protect our natural resources and safeguard public health. Environmental Advocates works alone and in coalitions and has more than 7,000 individual and 130 organizational members. The tax-exempt 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization is also the New York affiliate of the National Wildlife Federation.

The 2008 Advocate Awards
Join us at the 2008 Advocate Awards to honor New York's conservation heroes. Click here for more information.

Marcellus Shale & Hydrofracking
NY's Department of Environmental Conservation needs to update drilling regulations, address concerns related to hydrofracking technology. Click here for more.

 

Bills on the Move
Trees are good and smokestacks are bad in our evaluations of NYS legislation on the move. Click here to read our 2008 bill memos. 

Permission to Pollute

NY's environmental agency is endangering state waterways. Click here to learn more. 

New York Shortchanging Our Air, Land & Water 

State spending and tax credits are subsidizing polluters. Read the Wa$ted Green report.

Click here to see a complete list of our reports.