NY Env Conserv L § 75-0101 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 75 - Climate Change 75-0101 - Definitions.

§ 75-0101. Definitions.For  the  purposes  of this article the following terms shall have the   following meanings:1. "Allowance" means an authorization  to  emit,  during  a  specified   year, up to one ton of carbon dioxide equivalent.2.  "Carbon  dioxide equivalent" means the amount of carbon dioxide by   mass that would produce the same global warming impact as a  given  mass   of  another  greenhouse  gas  over  an integrated twenty-year time frame   after emission.3.  "Co-pollutants"  means  hazardous  air  pollutants   produced   by   greenhouse gas emissions sources.4.   "Council"  means  the  New  York  state  climate  action  council   established pursuant to section 75-0103 of this article.5. "Disadvantaged communities" means communities that bear burdens  of   negative  public  health  effects,  environmental  pollution, impacts of   climate change, and possess certain socioeconomic criteria, or  comprise   high-concentrations   of   low-  and  moderate-  income  households,  as   identified pursuant to section 75-0111 of this article.6.  "Emissions  reduction  measures"  means  programs,  measures   and   standards, authorized pursuant to this chapter, applicable to sources or   categories  of  sources,  that  are  designed  to  reduce  emissions  of   greenhouse gases.7. "Greenhouse gas" means  carbon  dioxide,  methane,  nitrous  oxide,   hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, sulfur hexafluoride, and any other   substance  emitted  into  the  air that may be reasonably anticipated to   cause or contribute to anthropogenic climate change.8. "Greenhouse gas emission limit" means the maximum  allowable  level   of statewide greenhouse gas emissions, in a specified year, expressed in   tons  of  carbon  dioxide  equivalent,  as  determined by the department   pursuant to this article.9. "Greenhouse gas emission offset" means a deduction representing one   metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions, reduced, avoided,  or   sequestered  by a greenhouse gas emission offset project from a measured   baseline of emissions pursuant to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions   report.10. "Greenhouse gas  emission  offset  projects"  means  one  or  more   projects, including:a.  Natural  carbon  sinks including but not limited to afforestation,   reforestation, or wetlands restoration;b. Greening infrastructure;c. Restoration and sustainable management of natural and urban forests   or working lands, grasslands, coastal wetlands and sub-tidal habitats;d.   Efforts   to   reduce   hydrofluorocarbon   refrigerant,   sulfur   hexafluoride, and other ozone depleting substance releases;e.  Anaerobic  digesters,  where  energy  produced  is directed toward   localized use;f. Carbon capture and sequestration;g. Ecosystem restoration; andh. Other types of projects recommended by the council in  consultation   with  the  climate  justice working group that provide public health and   environmental benefits, and  do  not  create  burdens  in  disadvantaged   communities.11.   "Greenhouse   gas   emission   source"  or  "source"  means  any   anthropogenic source or category of anthropogenic sources of  greenhouse   gas emissions, determined by the department:a.  whose  participation  in the program will enable the department to   effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions; and,b. that are capable of being monitored for compliance. 12. "Leakage" means a  reduction  in  emissions  of  greenhouse  gases   within  the  state  that  is  offset  by  an  increase  in  emissions of   greenhouse gases outside of the state.13.  "Statewide  greenhouse  gas  emissions"  means  the  total annual   emissions  of  greenhouse  gases  produced   within   the   state   from   anthropogenic sources and greenhouse gases produced outside of the state   that are associated with the generation of electricity imported into the   state  and the extraction and transmission of fossil fuels imported into   the state. Statewide emissions shall be  expressed  in  tons  of  carbon   dioxide equivalents.14. "Statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit" or "statewide emissions   limit"  means  the  maximum  allowable level of statewide greenhouse gas   emissions in a specified year, as determined by the department  pursuant   to this article.15.  "Environmental  justice  advisory group" shall mean the permanent   environmental justice advisory group established by  a  chapter  of  the   laws  of  two  thousand nineteen amending the environmental conservation   law relating to establishing a permanent environmental justice  advisory   group  and an environmental justice interagency coordinating council, as   proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 2385 and A. 1564.