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Environmental Justice:
Facility Siting
Our Position: support
Bill Number: A1808
Sponsor: Assembly Member Brodsky
Legislative Session: 2006
This bill ensures that impacts to overburdened, low-income communities of color will be considered in the siting of environmental facilities.
Status
01/24/06 – passed Assembly, referred to Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
Action Needed
Please call or write your State Senator in support of this bill. To identify your State Senator and his/her contact info, click here.
More information
Contact our Legislative Office.
Contact
Legislative Office, 518-426-9144. Or, contact John Stouffer, Legislative Director, john.stouffer@sierraclub.org
Background
May 2, 2005
Memorandum of Support
In Assembly 1808 by Assemblyman Brodsky
Title: An Act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the location of environmental facilitiesProvisions:A.1808 amends New York’s environmental quality review law to require that environmental impact statements include consideration of the inequitable or disproportionate adverse impacts of actions by state agencies and municipal governments may have on minority communities and economically distressed areas. In addition the bill proposes to require that state agencies or municipal governments consider the disproportionate or inequitable impacts in determining whether or not to require the preparation of an environmental impact statement.
Statement of Support:
Facilities that pose environmental hazards, like incinerators, power plants, or bus garages tend to be concentrated in minority and/or economically distressed communities. A.1808 proposes to require that agencies and local governments consider whether or not their decisions, when issuing permits or other approvals, will cause or contribute this phenomenon. In this way the bill will help to ensure that the risks already faced by minority or economically distressed do not increase
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