Today is World Environment Day! A day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment.
We all agree that we need to reduce the emissions of CO2 and we agree that cement and concrete account for a major share of carbon pollution globally. We want to see these emissions reduced, but believe that LECCLA needs to be much more specific in what it seeks to achieve and how that is done.
LECCLA, in ‘bill speak’ is an act to amend the state finance law, in relation to provisions in state procurement contracts involving the use of low embodied carbon concrete. What the law would actually do is allow industries to avoid substantive change and encourage the use of solid waste as fuel in cement plants.
Please share your thoughts on Senate Bill S542A with the 63 N.Y. State Senators voting on it as early as this Monday. If you live in Albany, call Senator Neil Breslin at 518.455.2225. Leave a voice mail message urging him that this bill needs substantial improvement before it can come to a vote.
Read our FACT SHEET to learn more.
Read our PROPOSED CHANGES to LECCLA.
Thank you for your support!
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