Thursday
Apr302009
Environmental Groups Set New York State Agenda for Upcoming Earth Day Lobby Day
April 30, 2009 Kyriaki (Sandy) Venetis 
New York State Wetlands. Photo courtesy of geocities.comALBANY- Environmental advocacy groups from around the state have just finalized the agenda for this year’s annual Earth Day lobbying pilgrimage to Albany on May 5.
“There are a couple of dozen environmental groups that will be taking part in the day. The Sierra Club, Audubon Society, Environmental Advocates of New York, and the New York Public Interest Research Group, just to name a few,” said Bill Mahoney, legislative operations coordinator for the Albany office of NYPIRG.
“All the groups came together to come up with the agenda of what issues we are working on,” he added. The major focus of the groups during the day will be the following four bills:
- Wetlands Protection (A.6363/S.848)
- Global Warming Pollution Control Act (A.7572)
- Electronic Equipment Recycling and Reuse Act (A.7571/S/2512)
- Environmental Access to Justice (A.3423/S.1635)