Senate Bill S6030

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the state greenhouse gas emission accounting system

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Environmental Conservation Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S6030 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6039
Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§75-0101, 75-0105 & 75-0109, En Con L; amd §66-p, Pub Serv L

2023-S6030 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the state greenhouse gas emission accounting system; aligns the state accounting system with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) accounting system.

2023-S6030 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S6030 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6030
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 27, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend  the  environmental  conservation  law  and  the  public
   service law, in relation to the state greenhouse gas emission account-
   ing system

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2, paragraph e of subdivision 10  and  subdivi-
 sion  13  of  section  75-0101 of the environmental conservation law, as
 added by chapter 106 of the  laws  of  2019,  are  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   2.  "Carbon  dioxide equivalent" means the amount of carbon dioxide by
 mass that would produce the same global warming impact as a  given  mass
 of  another greenhouse gas over an integrated [twenty-year] ONE HUNDRED-
 YEAR time frame after emission.
   e. Anaerobic digesters[, where  energy  produced  is  directed  toward
 localized use];
   13.  "Statewide greenhouse gas emissions" means the total annual emis-
 sions of greenhouse gases produced within the state  from  anthropogenic
 sources;  [and]  greenhouse gases produced outside of the state that are
 associated with the generation of electricity imported into  the  state;
 and GREENHOUSE GASES PRODUCED OUTSIDE THE STATE THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH
 the extraction and transmission of fossil fuels imported into the state.
 Statewide  emissions shall be expressed in tons of carbon dioxide equiv-
 alents ON A FULL LIFE-CYCLE BASIS UTILIZING THE  ARGONNE  GREET  (GREEN-
 HOUSE  GASES, REGULATED EMISSIONS, AND ENERGY USE IN TECHNOLOGIES) MODEL
 FOR ALL SYSTEMS RESULTING IN GREENHOUSE  GAS  EMISSION  SOURCES  IN  THE
 STATE,  INCLUDING  THE  RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION OF EACH TYPE OF GREENHOUSE
 GAS AND EACH TYPE OF SOURCE TO THE STATEWIDE TOTAL.
   § 2. Section 75-0105 of the environmental conservation law,  as  added
 by chapter 106 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10231-02-3
              

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