New York S 4792: Relates to declaring a climate emergency and placing a ban on new fossil fuel infrastructure

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S04792 Summary:

BILL NOS04792 

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SAME ASSAME AS A06240

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SPONSORSANDERS

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COSPNSRSALAZAR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §1-0103, Art 23 Title 29 §23-2901, En Con L

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Declares a climate emergency and places a ban on fossil fuel infrastructure projects but shall not apply to repair or maintenance of existing infrastructure.

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BILL NOS04792 

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02/12/2025REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4792

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 12, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. SANDERS, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed,
 and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental
 Conservation

 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
 declaring a climate emergency and placing a ban on new fossil fuel
 infrastructure

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
 2 new section 1-0103 to read as follows:
 3 § 1-0103. Climate emergency declaration and policy.
 4 1. The legislature finds and declares the following:
 5 (a) A climate emergency exists that threatens the state of New York,
 6 the nation, and the world;
 7 (b) Irrevocable damage to the environment has been caused by global
 8 warming of approximately one degree celsius demonstrating that the earth
 9 is already too hot for safety and justice, as attested by increased and
 10 intensifying wildfires, floods, rising seas, diseases, droughts, and
 11 extreme weather;
 12 (c) On April twenty-second, two thousand sixteen, world leaders from
 13 one hundred seventy-four countries and the European Union recognized the
 14 threat of climate change and the urgent need to combat it by signing the
 15 Paris Agreement, agreeing to keep warming well below two degrees celsius
 16 above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temper-
 17 ature increase to one and one-half degrees fahrenheit;
 18 (d) On October eighth, two thousand eighteen, the United Nations
 19 International Panel on Climate Change ("IPCC") released a special
 20 report, which projected that limiting warming to the one and one-half
 21 degrees celsius target this century will require an unprecedented trans-
 22 formation of every sector of the global economy over the next twelve
 23 years;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08585-01-5

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 1 (e) On November twenty-third, two thousand eighteen, the United States
 2 Fourth National Climate Assessment ("NCA4") was released and details the
 3 massive threat that climate change poses to the American economy, our
 4 environment and climate stability, and underscores the need for immedi-
 5 ate climate emergency action at all levels of government;
 6 (f) According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's
 7 (NASA) Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), global temperatures
 8 in two thousand eighteen were eighty-three one-hundredths degrees celsi-
 9 us (one and one-half degrees fahrenheit) warmer than the nineteen
 10 hundred fifty-one to nineteen hundred eighty mean, and the past five
 11 years are collectively the warmest in modern history;
 12 (g) World Wildlife Fund's 2018 Living Planet report finds that there
 13 has been a sixty per centum decline in global wildlife populations
 14 between nineteen hundred seventy and two thousand fourteen, with causes
 15 including overfishing, pollution and climate change;
 16 (h) According to the intergovernmental science-policy platform on
 17 biodiversity and ecosystem services, human activity has already severely
 18 altered forty per centum of the marine environment, fifty per centum of
 19 inland waterways, and seventy-five per centum of the planet's land, and
 20 it is projected that five hundred thousand to one million species are
 21 threatened with extinction, many within the next few decades;
 22 (i)