HRWG, BCEQ, NYSDEC Power Plan 4:30-8pm on Wed 5/11

REMINDER

TIME:             Wednesday May 11, 2016 from 4:30 pm to 8 pm

 

TOPICS:          Future Plans for Harlem River Working Group

BCEQ Board Meeting

Conversation NYS Clean Power Plan 

PLACE: Bronx Museum of the Arts

1040 Grand Concourse at 165th Street. Bronx NY in the Conference Room

Directions:  http://www.bronxmuseum.org/visit

4:30 pm  - The Harlem River Working Group will discuss updates 

on the Harlem River and plans for the year. 

6 pm - BCEQ will hold a brief Board meeting to discuss Educational and Environmental Awards. 

6:15 pm - A conversation with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation on the State's Clean Power Plan

  

These meetings are open to the public, but a reservation is necessary.  

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meetings-harlem-river-working-group-bceq-nysdec-clean-power-plan-registration-24946108482

Harlem River Working Group (HRWG)

The HRWG will be meeting to discuss our successes, updates, and future plans.  

• Fall Festivals (Roberto Clemente and VCP) and Wilderness Inquiry Canoemobile
• Workshops on the Harlem River Long Term Control Plan
• What's next along the Harlem River Greenway
• Tibbetts Brook Daylighting
• BCEQ's Step 2 of the Harlem River Brownfield Opportunity Area Program
• City of Water Day Activities

A Conversation on the State's Clean Power Plan

The Clean Power Plan is a new rule set by President Obama and the U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA) to cut carbon pollution from large power plants – the biggest source of carbon pollution in the United States. The Clean Power Plan will reduce the pollution causing climate change and its impacts on New York. 

The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC) needs to develop a state plan to meet the goal that EPA has set for New York and would like your input. New York is better situated than most states to comply with the Clean Power Plan because it has reduced emissions substantially over the past decade.  Governor Cuomo’s clean energy programs will reduce these emissions even more. 

New York is working to develop strategies to provide broad benefits to communities - particularly low-income and communities of color – by reducing carbon pollution from power plants and doing so in a way that focuses on cleaner energy.  

They are looking to you to provide the vision for these strategies. 

NYS has the flexibility on how to meet the goals of the Clean Power Plan.  Help the state choose among various approaches, while also hearing about how the Clean Power Plan works with other air pollution and clean energy programs.

Link to the DEC website

Look for an invite to a discussion for the NY-NJ Harbor Estuary Program Workshops the second week in July before the City of Water Day.  We are planning to hold the Proposed 2-Hour Workshop at Manhattan College Lower Campus during the day.

 

We also plan a 30 minute brief presentation in the evening at another location.