Last year's Earth Day Lobby Day was a huge success,
with over 600 participants and the passage of several of our bills. A coalition of local, state and national environmental groups has once again come together to make this year's Earth Day Lobby Day the most successful yet.
Power in numbers! Join hundreds of activists from across the state as we lobby for:
- energy conservation;
- a moratorium on the planting of genetically modified seeds in New York;
- Superfund/brownfields funding and cleanup;
- healthy school environments;
- urban/open space funding; and
- asthma emergency room data collection.
Newcomers and
students are especially welcome!
The schedule. Earth Day Lobby Day 2001 will be held on Monday, April 23 at the Legislative
Office Building from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. There will be speeches from
leading government and environment officials, issue briefings and a how-to-lobby workshop in
the morning. In the afternoon, we will break into lobby teams;
after a noon rally, many of the teams will meet with their own Assemblymembers and Senators. While
you are welcome to voice local concerns to your legislators, we will
all lobby on our joint agenda in order to have a maximum impact.
For more information, email: edld@envadvocates.org, or contact Laura DiBetta at 518-462-5526.
Earth Day Lobby Day Steering Committee: Arbor Hill Environmental Justice Corp.; Citizen Action; Citizens’ Environmental Coalition; Environmental Advocates; Healthy Schools Network; Hudson River Sloop Clearwater; Natural Resources Defense Council; New York City Environmental Justice Alliance; New York Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides; New York League of Conservation Voters; New York Public Interest Research Group; New York State Greens; Public Employees Federation/EnCon; Scenic Hudson; Sierra Club-Atlantic Chapter; South Bronx Clean Air Coalition
Cosponsors: Albany Central Federation of Labor; American Wind Energy Association (Wind Power NY Project); Babylon Breast Cancer Coalition; Coalition to Save Hempstead Harbor; Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society; Environmental Defense; Federated Conservationists of Westchester County; Finger Lakes Citizens for the Environment; Friends of the Bay; Great Lakes United; Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition; Long Island Pine Barrens Society; National Wildlife Federation; Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York; Public Employees Federation Region 8; Residents' Committee to Protect the Adirondacks; Save the Pine Bush; Save the River; Transportation Alternatives; Westchester People's Action Coalition
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