Proposed legislation in New York would require oil and gas producers in the state to pay $30 billion over the next decade for their share of total greenhouse gas emissions since 2000.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.A New York bill could force fossil fuel companies to pay for what lawmakers —A pair of Democratic New York state lawmakers, Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz and state Sen. Liz Krueger, have drafted the, a bill that, if enacted, would require oil and gas producers in the state to pay $30 billion over the next decade for their share of total greenhouse gas emissions since 2000.
This first-in-the-nation legislation uses the polluter-pays model, a commonly accepted practice that those who produce pollution should pay to clean it up, and applies it to greenhouse gas emissions.consider greenhouse gas emissions a form of pollution because of their potential harm to human health and the environment.State of the State address
State agencies and EPA regional offices often declare Superfund sites. But unlike the existing federal Superfund program, this proposed state act would not have to prove polluters were negligent. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation would use a formula for each fossil fuel company to calculate their emissions and the percentage they would have to pay.
They could argue, like they’ve done in other cases, that carbon emissions aren’t a state issue, but a global one, of international scope. Rothschild said New York can still make its case by showing that through sales, marketing and product transportation, fossil fuel companies still operated within the state.
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