New York’s environmental regulatory scheme serves numerous purposes. For instance, the Legislature’s goal in adopting the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA)1 was to incorporate environmental factors into the planning, review and decision-making processes of state and local government agencies at the earliest possible time.2 The new “Electronic Equipment Recycling and Reuse Act”3 seeks to cut the volume of discarded electronics entering the solid waste stream.4
Enforcement of regulations at the municipal level, however, has been the topic of court challenges. In some instances, applicants might believe they are in the equivalent of an “administrative purgatory,” with municipal decision-makers using environmental regulations to avoid making decisions on controversial applications or to punitively stop a project.
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