Issue Position: Environment

Issue Position

Nicole has been a leader in environmental protection as a member of the State Assembly. She worked to advance state measures to ensure both clean air and clean water and to combat beach erosion. Following Superstorm Sandy, Nicole helped prevent residential development in sensitive area wetlands, wrote a law requiring some neighborhoods destroyed by Sandy to be returned to their natural state and supported a new law requiring state agencies to consider future climate risk due to rising sea levels and storm flooding.

This year, Nicole voted to establish goals for New York to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and expand the use of renewable energy. As our voice in Congress, Nicole will deliver the federal funding needed to properly maintain Staten Island's three federal parks.

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