The goal of the Environmental Committee is to propose to the Executive Committee and the membership progressive policies related to environmental issues. An environmentally clean and safe world is a human right. By supporting the club’s legislative efforts, we hope to make our actions more productive and successful.
Nat Johnson, Chair
A few of our social and legislative priorities include:
- Expanding sanitation services like increasing composting and trash collection in New York City,
- Support and promotion of Local Law 97
- Passing legislation in the State and City to require restaurants to exclude and reduce the amounts of plastics entering our environment,
- Promotion of legislation like the “Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act,”
- Eliminating all fossil fuel subsidies,
- Banning new fossil fuel power plants and infrastructure,
- Promote in New York State and City renewable energy infrastructure such as heat pumps, solar and wind power.
- Banning use of fracking by-products such as highway de-icing agents and the use of State subsidized power for cryptocurrency mining,
- Expanding the availability and number of EV recharging stations, and switching NYC-owned vehicles to become fully electric,
- Requiring manufacturers to implement strategies to promote recycling of their products, “Extended Producer Responsibility,”
- Promotion of climate-friendly farming “regenerative agriculture policies,”
- Keeping chemical contaminants and cancer-causing agents out of our water supplies,
- Actively support NYS’s environmental goals.
If you would like to join the VID Environment Committee or would like more information, send us an email: HERE.