[CPEO-BIF] "Environmentalists push Legislature to renew [New York's] expiring Superfund and Brownfield programs"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup Time?
Environmentalists push Legislature to renew state’s expiring  
Superfund and Brownfield programs

By Wilder Fleming
City and State New York
April 23, 2014

Funding for two of New York’s environmental cleanup programs is set  
to expire within the next two years, and although Gov. Andrew Cuomo  
included proposals for the extension of both in his original 2014  
executive budget proposal, they were removed from the final $138  
billion deal struck with the state Legislature last month.

Now, with a little over two months left in the legislative session,  
advocates and lawmakers are still hoping to see the state Superfund  
and Brownfield programs extended - and in the case of the latter,  
reformed.

"We thought that there was not enough time or opportunity to give it  
the attention that it needed in the budget process, where things tend  
to be kind of rushed," said Assemblyman Robert Sweeney, who chairs  
the Committee on Environmental Conservation. "We expect to have a  
discussion, which the Senate and the governor agreed to, before the  
end of session.”"

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For the entire article, see
http://www.cityandstateny.com/157/cleanup-time.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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