Eliot Spitzer

Eliot Spitzer is running for Governor of New York

• Suing the Bush Administration 15 times to block the federal assault on major federal environmental statutes
• Winning major lawsuits to require improvements in some appliance efficiency standards and saving key provisions of the federal Clean Air Act
• Litigating to reduce air pollution from coal-fired power plants and diesel buses and trucks
• Protecting hundreds of community gardens in NYC from being destroyed
• Enforcing local recycling laws and helping to ensure that funds in the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard and Systems Benefit Charge are wisely spent

• Preserve urban parks and open space in cities and protect the Adirondack and Catskill Forest
• Improve and expand mass transit across the state
• Clean up brownfields and state superfund sites
• Require every state agency to develop and adopt a sustainability plan to ensure that environmental protection is fully integrated into the operation of every state agency