2023 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; and
h. 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.