Download an “explainer” of Proposition 1, from the Columbia Law School, as a pdf.
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Just reminding our NY voters to turn your ballot over and vote on Proposition …
THIS is a big deal! California health and environmental activists got a law passed in 2022 whose implementation was blocked by Big Oil …
DCS was an active part of getting the New York Birds and Bees Protection Act passed and signed. DCS was part of the brainstorming and activism for this act, including filing comments on the various drafts, encouraging people to sign …
DCS Joins Forces with the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Pollinator Pathway to help PASS THE BIRDS & BEES PROTECTION ACT in New York.
DCS has been protecting public health, educating individuals, officials and organizations, and taking precautionary actions …
The DRBC commissioners take their marching orders from the governors …
The League of Women Voters of NYS, with avid input and inspiration from DCS Director Barbara Arrindell and member Marge Schab, pushed for this legislation from its introduction in 2011 until this year when it passed.
The logic was to …
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today (April 3, 2020) signed the FY 2021 Enacted Budget. The budget is balanced, …
For background on HB 1100 read Petrochemicals in PA: What You Need to Know by the NRDC.
TAKE ACTION! …
It has been 2 years since the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) voted to ban fracking in the Delaware …
Westchestesr/Rockland Newsday reports on a trip NY State Senator David Carlucci took to view hydrofracking sites in PA, a trip that has increased his determination to push a bill he has introduced to delay any permits on hydrofracking until three …
The Texas Tribune reported yesterday on legislative attempts to address the damage done to Texas roads by drilling:
…“The Texas Department of Transportation has estimated that maintaining infrastructure impacted by the drilling boom will cost $4 billion a year. Advocates
The state Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation banning the use of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas exploration in New Jersey.
The 33-1 vote came after Sen. Joseph Kyrillos (R-Monmouth) unsuccessfully asked for a …
