Team Tackling Toxics 2025, PFAS Whitepaper, Legislators Receive a Copy of Forever Fables: Meet Poly!
Today, advocates in the JustGreen Partnership and PFAS-Free NY campaign announced a “Team Tackling Toxics” comprised of NYS Senators and Assemblymembers praised for their leadership on PFAS bills for the 2025 session. Based on sponsorship or cosponsorship of 14 bills, with higher scores for bills that “turn off the tap” on toxic PFAS by banning its use in products, moderate scores for bills that address significant systems (like packaging) or PFAS in air, water and soil, and lower scores for bills that address smaller sectors or are only introduced in one house.
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Advocates Sound the Alarm On Key Environmental Bills
Today, JustGreen Partnership and leaders in environmental advocacy gathered at the NYS Capitol with Senator Webb, Assemblymember Glick, discussing toxic chemical policy to urge the Assembly and Senate to pass key bills in environmental justice & health that focus on banning toxic ingredients in everyday personal care & consumer products, and creating a better system reducing solid waste in New York State.
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Ban on PFAS and Toxic Chemicals in Menstrual Products Bill Passes in Both Houses in New York State
Today, the JustGreen Partnership is celebrating a mid-point legislative session win with the unanimous passage of the Ban on PFAS and Toxic Chemicals Bill S.1548 (Fernandez) / A1502 (Rosenthal) in the Assembly, following unanimous passage in the Senate in January. Next step is the Governor Hochul‘s desk. Once signed into law by the end of the year, New York will join California, Maine, and Vermont in restricting PFAS in menstrual products, and go beyond other states by restricting other harmful chemicals.
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Just Green Partnership Applauds Passage of Senate Earth Day Bill
Leaders of New York’s Environmental Justice community today hailed passage of a series of legislative bills by the State Senate aimed at reducing single-use plastic containers by the hotel and hospitality industry, calling on Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to quickly sign the bill into law and help eliminate plastic waste in the Empire State.
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GROUPS HONOR 51ST ANNUAL EARTH DAY WITH VIRTUAL CAPITOL ADVOCACY
Seeking environmental justice for NY communities, increased safety from harmful chemicals for families and firefighters, and protections for land and water, hundreds of community advocates from across the Empire State held zoom conferences with more than 60 state legislators today during the 51st Earth Day Celebration and Advocacy Day.
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New York Closes the Hazardous Waste Loophole
By overwhelming margins, both houses of the New York legislature passed S. 3392 (May) / A. 2655 (Englebright) to amend the Environmental Conservation law by appropriately classifying waste from oil and gas exploration, development, extraction or production as hazardous. This designation ensures that such waste is subject to all laws and regulations governing generation, transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal, if such waste meets New York’s established definition of hazardous waste. The law will take effect immediately upon enactment by Governor Cuomo, at which point the state has six months to bring its regulations into compliance with the law.
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