State & City Climate Initiatives - New York - Researching State & City Government

NYC Climate Dashboard

NYC Climate Dashboard (NYC Comptroller)
The NYC Climate Dashboard tracks NYC's progress in meeting climate goals by assessing how effectively the city is reducing carbon emissions and how prepared neighborhoods are for the impacts of climate change. Each section of the dashboard includes key climate indicators, along with data on city policies and programs designed to improve those outcomes.

New York Climate Law Trackers

New York City Climate Law Tracker
The New York City Climate Law Tracker monitors New York City's progress in implementing its climate laws, including the Climate Mobilization Act, a suite of local laws that were enacted in 2019. The most prominent of these is Local Law 97, which places limits on the amount of greenhouse gases that large buildings may emit.
New York State Climate Law Tracker
The New York State Climate Law Tracker monitors New York's progress in implementing its path-breaking Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, Environmental Justice Law, Community Risk and Resiliency Act, and Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth and Community Benefit Act.

NY State Climate Fund

Climate Investment (NY State Comptroller)
Information about the Comptroller's Climate Action Plan with regard to the State's retirement fund.

NY State & City - Climate Change Adaptation & Mitigation Bills and Laws

NY State HEAT Act (awaiting passage by the NY Assembly as of March 2025)

NY HEAT Act (Passed by NY Senate & reintroduced Feb, 2025))
Senator Liz Krueger Announces Reintroduction of NY HEAT Act
The NY HEAT Act passed the Senate in 2023 & 2024 and purports to align state utility laws with the climate mandates in the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act by ending New York's gas mandate and forced ratepayer subsidies for gas expansion.
Hochul Is Ready to Start Weaning New York Off Gas
This article discusses Governor Hochul's inclusion of key tenets of the HEAT Act in her 2024 budget proposal.

NY State Climate Superfund Act (2025)

NY Climate Superfund Act
Establishes the climate change adaptation cost recovery program and the climate change adaptation fund
State “Climate Superfund” Bills: What You Need to Know
An article that discusses state superfund bills which would require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.
Article: New York Climate Superfund Becomes Law

NY State - The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (2019)

On July 18, 2019, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (Climate Act) was signed into law. New York State’s Climate Act is among the most ambitious climate laws in the nation and requires New York to reduce economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent by 2030 and no less than 85 percent by 2050 from 1990 levels.

Link to Senate Bill S6599, Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act
Westlaw: Bill Jacket for Senate Bill 6599
Includes the voting record and Governor's memo upon signing the bill into law, as well as other legislative history.

New York State All-Electric Buildings Act (Part RR of Chapter 56 of the Laws of 2023) and New York City Local Law 154 (2021) on phasing out of Fossil Fuels in New Construction

NY State - Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth and Community Benefit Act (2021)

Fact Sheet for Local Governments - Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth and Community Beneft Act
Office of Renewable Energy Siting and Electric Transmission
The mission of the Office of Renewable Energy Siting and Electric Transmission (ORES), which was established by the Accelerated Renewable Energy
Growth and Community Beneft Act, is to consolidate the environmental review and permitting of major renewable energy facilities in New York State into a single forum that provides a coordinated and timely review of siting permit applications.

All large-scale, renewable energy projects 25 megawatts or larger are required to obtain a siting permit from ORES for new construction or expansion.

New York City Climate Mobilization Act (2019) & Local Law 97

NY State Community Risk and Resiliency Act (2014, amended 2019)

Community Risk And Resiliency Act (CRRA) (2014, amended 2019)
This is the NY Dep't of Env. Conservation's site on the CRRA and includes sea level rise projections, implementation guidance, and model local laws.
Westlaw: NY Bill Jacket for CRRA (2014)
Westlaw: CRRA, Senate Bill 6617-B (passed into law)

Organizations

Urban Green Council
A nonprofit dedicated to decarbonizing buildings for healthy and resilient communities.
NY League of Conservation Voters
NYLCV is a statewide environmental organization in New York that fights for clean water, clean air, renewable energy and open space through political action.
Environmental Advocates NY
Environmental Advocates NY’s mission is to protect our air, land, water. and wildlife and the health of all New Yorkers. Based in Albany, EANY monitors state government, evaluates proposed laws, and champions policies and practices that will ensure the responsible stewardship of our environment.

News - Climate & Environment

NY Focus - Climate

NY Environmental Justice Law

New York Adopts Nation’s Strongest Environmental Justice Law
Article summarizing the NY Environmental Justice Law passed in 2023.
NY Dep't of Environmental Conservation - Environmental Justice Policies and Regulations
Section 70-0118 of the Environmental Conservation Law of New York
SECTION 70-0118: Disproportionate impacts on disadvantaged communities
NYC - Envirornmental Justice Initiatives
NYC Local Law 60 (2017)
Requiring a study of environmental justice areas and the establishment of an environmental justice portal.
NYC Local Law 64 (2017)
Identifying and addressing environmental justice issues.
New York City's Environmental Justice for All Report (2021)

New York - Researching State & City Government : State & City Climate Initiatives