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While serving as Chief of Staff to Assembly Member Jonathan L. Bing our office received an honor from the New York League of Conservation Voters for introducing environmentally friendly legislation that helped enable the MTA's Select Bus Program.

As someone who grew up in New York City and State the environment including our City and State parks, greenways such as running and bike paths, and waterways are of integral importance. As a child I grew up playing in Carl Schurz and John Jay parks, and as an adult I've hiked in our State parks with Surprise Lake Camp, biked over 75+ miles of our greenways with Transportation Alternatives, swam across the East River with NYC Swim and in the Hudson River with the New York City Triathlon, and trained everywhere with the Asphalt Green Triathlon team.

As an avid user of our City and States natural resources, you won't find a better advocate for our environment. After all what other candidate would fight to keep the City's rivers clean enough to swim in?

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Crain's New York Pre-empted by Cuomo, council still pursues fracking ban by Andrew J. Hawkings

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20141218/INSIDER/141219858/pre-empted-by-cu...

 

Never mind Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decision Wednesday to ban hydrofracking statewide. And ignore the absence of natural-gas reserves in the five boroughs. The City Council will move ahead with its own moratorium on the controversial drilling process.

The bill was initially conceived as an endorsement of local fracking bans in such upstate communities as Otsego County's Middlefield and Tompkins County's Dryden.

"Whereas before, the bill was an expression of solidarity with these municipalities and an attempt to pressure the state to move forward, it is now an expression of support of the governor's action," explained a spokeswoman for Councilman Ben Kallos, who is co-sponsoring the legislation.

But Mr. Cuomo's decision to heed the advice of his commissioners on health and environmental conservation to prohibit fracking rendered the council's gesture moot, which it was anyway because there is no gas-rich shale under the city. Mr. Kallos' spokeswoman said that the bill would be reworked in the coming days to reflect the new reality, but could not say how exactly. —AJH

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