Memorandum of Opposition A472 Woerner / S1343 Parker
The idea that biofuels are a panacea to climate change is a fallacy, as they have significant environmental and economic drawbacks.
The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act – our landmark NYS Climate Law – went into effect in January 2020 and its implementation plan was published in December 2022, and ever since then our efforts to fully fund and implement the Act have been afflicted by incrementalism… then inaction… and now attempts to partially undo the law.
This deceptively named “clean fuel” bill would in fact impede achievement of the mandates in the Climate Law by incentivizing the continued use of carbon-based biofuels in the transportation sector.
The Clean Fuel Standard legislation offers harmful short-term false solutions. To reach net-zero emissions, New York must transition to solar, wind, geo-thermal and hydro not from one burnable fuel to another.
If your assemblymember is listed below, send an email message to them today and request that they drop off as a co-sponsor of the Clean Fuel Standard bill – A472.
Sample email: I write to ask that you withdraw your co-sponsorship of the Clean Fuel Standard legislation – A472. The perception that biofuels are a panacea to climate change is a fallacy, as they have significant environmental and economic drawbacks. This deceptively named “clean fuel” bill would in fact impede achievement of the mandates in the Climate Law by incentivizing the continued use of carbon-based biofuels in the transportation sector.
Assemblymembers currently listed as co-sponsors:
Woerner, Sayegh, Williams, Magnarelli, Stirpe, Carroll R, Rivera, Simon, Hevesi, Vanel, Dinowitz, Hunter, Barrett, Seawright, Hyndman, Benedetto, Jackson, Burdick, Lunsford, Braunstein, Clark, Bronson, Simpson, Ra, Brown K, Durso, Kim, Bichotte Hermelyn, DeStefano, Gibbs, Bores, Raga, De Los Santos, Gandolfo, Epstein, Lee, Simone, Rosenthal, Forrest, Eachus, Levenberg, Meeks, Pheffer-Amato, Davila, Slater, Tapia, Walsh, Shimsky, Colton, Stern, Reyes, Jones, Lupardo, Weprin, Rozic, Santabarbara, Walker, Cook, Jacobson, McMahon, Burke, Anderson, Peoples-Stokes, Rajkumar, Cruz, Fall, Taylor, Dilan, Buttenschon, Conrad, Mikulin, Steck, Lavine, Cunningham, Novakhov, Zinerman, Septimo, Zaccaro, Bendett, Alvarez, Chandler-Waterman, Blumencranz, McDonough
