DiNapoli goes green
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- September
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State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli today issued an executive order designed to curb energy use by the state government.
He also directed his auditors to evaluate whether state agencies, public authorities and local governments are complying with environmental and energy requirements.
“Corporate America is beginning to understand that reducing energy consumption and waste makes sense both environmentally and economically,’’ said Di Napoli, former chairman of the Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee. “It’s time that New York State took the next step. We are going to use our audits as an engine to drive clean practices at every state agency and local government in New York.’’
Gov. Eliot Spitzer has set a goal of reducing energy consumption in the state by 15 percent. DiNapoli’s executive order directs his auditors to evaluate whether state agencies, public authorities, local governments and school districts are complying with existing environmental and energy requirements. Currently, state agencies are required to purchase 10 percent of their electricity from renewable sources, increasing to 20 percent by 2010.
Also by 2010, all of the new light duty vehicles purchased by the state must use alternative fuel.
His executive order also requires that his office buy 25 percent of its electricity from clean, renewable sources, up from the current 10 percent, and cut down on the use of paper.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
