Provides an exemption from requirements for the alienation of parkland for renewable energy generating projects with a generating capacity not exceeding two megawatts and which are located above real property currently used for vehicle parking.
Provides that no person shall sell or offer for sale any cosmetic product or personal care product containing mercury, other than in trace amounts allowed by the food and drug administration as unavoidable under conditions of good manufacturing practice or necessary for use as a preservative in the absence of an effective and safe nonmercurial preservative substitute.
Prohibits the sale of gasoline powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers in the state; requires the commissioner to promulgate rules to enact such prohibition by January 1, 2025.
Provides that the commissioner of environmental conservation shall place and operate certain air quality monitoring systems in proximity to NY city airports.
Enacts the state and local government food waste prevention and diversion act; requires facilities generating excess food waste to take measures to minimize such waste.
Directs the department of environmental conservation to promulgate standards for emission of regulated air contaminants from small electric generating sources (defined within); specifies criteria therefor; provides for a permitting requirement and an alternative permitting mechanism involving a registration process.
Requires the commissioner of environmental conservation to establish standards for and a program of inspection and certification of green roofs prior to and after installation, including standards for environmentally acceptable chemical fertilizers and the testing of runoff water for evidence of such fertilizers; establishes a green roof installation tax credit in the amount of fifty-five percent of qualified expenditures with a credit maximum of five thousand dollars.
Relates to the clean-up of petroleum discharges occurring during the delivery of home heating oil to a residence; provides any petroleum discharges shall be immediately cleaned up by the oil delivery company; if such spill affects soil then clean-up shall include replacing affected soil with new soil within 24 hours; provides fines for violation.
Requires air quality monitoring of certain major mass transportation projects that involve an excavation operation within a city having a population of one million or more.
Provides that a resident of the state for a period of three months prior to the date of application and who is otherwise qualified for certain hunting, fishing and big game licenses and who has a disability as defined in the executive law shall be entitled to receive such license at 50% of the cost set by statute.