WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 -- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) filed an amicus brief to hold big polluters accountable for the harms their emissions have caused New York families and to defend New York state-law against legal attacks from major polluters seeking to evade responsibility for the damage they have caused.
Big polluters and their enablers are challenging New York's Climate Superfund Act, which established a fund paid for by large polluting companies based on their greenhouse gas emissions from 2000-2024 to pay for projects that protect New Yorkers from rising sea levels and other climate change risks.
In an effort to avoid accountability,...