About Environment New York
We’re your state environmental group — protecting the places we love, advancing the environmental values we share, and winning real results for our environment.
Who we are
Environment New York is a statewide, citizen-based environmental advocacy organization. We believe there’s something special about New York — something worth protecting and preserving for future generations. Whether it’s hiking in the wild forested hills of the Catskills, going for a swim in Long Island Sound, or camping along Lake George in the Adirondacks, New York’s natural wonders enrich our lives in countless ways.
Yet the places we love and the environmental values so many of us share are too often threatened by powerful industries, short-sighted politicians and more. Defending our environment requires independent research, tough-minded advocacy and spirited grassroots action.
That’s the idea behind Environment New York. Together with tens of thousands of supporters from all walks of life, we take action that wins tangible results for our environment.
FIND OUT MORE
OUR STAFF
What we do
Funded by supporters like you, we research the challenges confronting New York’s environment and educate the public about what’s at stake. Through our research reports, news conferences, interviews with reporters, op-ed pieces, letters to the editor, and more, we raise awareness of environmental issues and promote sensible solutions. Our canvassers meet people where they are — in public places or door to door — raising awareness, recruiting new supporters and activists, and raising funds to support our work.
When decisions are being made about New York’s environment, our elected officials hear plenty from the gas companies, developers and other powerful interests. We make the case for our environment and help people like you make your voice heard, through petitions, emails, letters, phone calls and more, all delivered to the right people just when it matters most.
FIND OUT MORE
Environment New York Research & Policy Center
Results
- Holding the line against drilling. In 2010, we helped win the nation’s first moratorium on nation’s first temporary ban on “fracking,” the most dangerous form of drilling, after we organized thousands of New Yorkers to speak out and take action.
- Cleaner cars, less pollution. New Yorkers are breathing easier thanks to new clean car standards our staff helped win. On July 29, President Obama announced the outline of new clean car standards covering cars and light trucks through 2025, which will amount to the single biggest step this country has ever taken to end our addiction to oil and tackle global warming.
- Restoring Long Island Sound to health. Sewage pollution creates a dead zone in the Sound every summer that can grow up to seven times the size of Manhattan—but new EPA rules will set tough limits on pollution. In 2010, at the urging of our staff and members, the Environmental Protection Agency introduced new clean water rules that will curb the sewage pollution that flows into Long Island Sound.