Business Programs that Help the Environment
Environmentally-friendly business practices not only protect New York's resources, but also benefit organizations and businesses by making their operations more economical and efficient. This website tells how DEC helps businesses and organizations develop and implement new operating practices, and recognizes their successes.
New York Environmental Leaders (NYEL) is an environmental leadership program for New York businesses and organizations. The goal of NYEL is to motivate businesses and organizations to voluntarily implement Environmental Management Systems (EMSs), which are sets of management tools and principles to create the administrative procedures that an organization needs to integrate environmental concerns into its daily business practices.
Any organization can benefit from an EMS, which provides a framework for managing environmental responsibilities in a more systematic manner. The website includes DEC policy promoting EMSs, and a three-step guide that will help your business or organization create an EMS that fits your operation.
More about Business Programs that Help the Environment:
- Green Procurement - In April 2008, Governor David A. Paterson signed Executive Order No. 4, Establishing a State Green Procurement and Agency Sustainability Program.
- Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) - Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) is the recently adopted overhaul of the chemicals management systems in the European Union (EU).
- NYS Pollution Prevention Institute - The NYS Pollution Prevention Institute (P2I) promotes cost effective methods to conserve energy, reduce wastes and improve performance.
- New York Environmental Leaders - An environmental leadership program to motivate New York's regulated community to implement environmental management systems (EMSs) that focus on improved environmental performance. The program provides recognition and incentives to organizations that are able to demonstrate, and provide future commitment to, improved environmental performance.
- Environmental Management System - An Environmental Management System (EMS) is a set of management tools and principles designed to create the administrative procedures that an organization needs to integrate environmental concerns into its daily business practices
- Comparative Risk Project - Comparative Risk Projects can help identify those environmental problem areas where current regulatory and pollution prevention efforts have either not yet been implemented, can benefit from enhancement, or have so far failed to adequately reduce risk to human health, ecosystems, and quality of life for New Yorkers
