New York S 6553: Establishes a green new deal for New York task force

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S06553 Summary:

BILL NOS06553 

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SAME ASSAME AS A05147

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Establishes a Green New Deal for New York task force; requires such task force to develop a detailed statewide, industrial, economic mobilization plan for the transition of the New York economy to become greenhouse gas emissions neutral by 2030 and to significantly draw down greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and oceans and to promote economic and environmental justice and equality.

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03/17/2025REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6553

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 17, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

 AN ACT to establish a Green New Deal for New York task force; and
 providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

 1 Section 1. Legislative findings and intent. 1. The legislature recog-
 2 nizes the duty of the New York state government to create a Green New
 3 Deal for New York. An October 2018 report entitled "Special Report on
 4 Global Warming of 1.5°C" by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
 5 Change and the November 2018 Fourth National Climate Assessment report
 6 found that:
 7 (a) human activity is the dominant cause of observed climate change
 8 over the past century;
 9 (b) a changing climate is causing sea levels to rise and an increase
 10 in wildfires, severe storms, droughts, and other extreme weather events
 11 that threaten human life, healthy communities, and critical infrastruc-
 12 ture;
 13 (c) global warming at or above 2 degrees Celsius beyond preindustrial-
 14 ized levels will cause:
 15 (i) mass migration from the regions most affected by climate change;
 16 (ii) more than $500,000,000,000 in lost annual economic output in the
 17 United States by the year 2100;
 18 (iii) wildfires that, by 2050, will annually burn at least twice as
 19 much forest area in the western United States than was typically burned
 20 by wildfires in the years preceding 2019;
 21 (iv) a loss of more than 99 percent of all coral reefs on earth;
 22 (v) more than 350,000,000 more people to be exposed globally to deadly
 23 heat stress by 2050; and
 24 (vi) a risk of damage to $1,000,000,000,000 of public infrastructure
 25 and coastal real estate in the United States; and

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06197-01-5

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 1 (d) global temperatures must be kept below 1.5 degrees Celsius above
 2 preindustrialized levels to avoid the most severe impacts of a changing
 3 climate, which will require:
 4 (i) global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from human sources
 5 of 40 to 60 percent from 2010 levels by 2030; and
 6 (ii) net-zero global emissions by 2050.
 7 2. As the United States, including New York, has historically been
 8 responsible for a disproportionate amount of greenhouse gas emissions,
 9 having emitted 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions through
 10 2014, and has a high technological capacity, the United States and New
 11 York must take a leading role in reducing emissions through economic
 12 transformation.
 13 3. The United States is currently experiencing several related crises,
 14 with:
 15 (a) life expectancy declining while basic needs, such as clean air,
 16 clean water, healthy food, and adequate health care, housing, transpor-
 17 tation, and education, are inaccessible to a significant portion of the
 18 United States population;
 19 (b) a 4-decade trend of wage stagnation, deindustrialization, and
 20 antilabor policies that has led to:
 21 (i) hourly wages overall stagnating since the 1970's despite increased
 22 worker productivity;
 23 (ii) the third-worst level of socioeconomic mobility