Help for Businesses
Across New York State we see examples that prove that businesses that employ sound environmental decisions in their operations are the strongest, most successful enterprises around. Whether you need help with a permit application (contact the appropriate Regional Permit Administrator), or are interested in finding ways to make your business more green (contact Allan Geisendorfer, DEC's designee to the Pollution Prevention and Environmental Compliance Coordinating Council, by email or phone 518-402-9469), building a partnership with DEC early in the process is the best way to achieve a successful outcome: one that's good for the environment and great for your bottom line.
Sound environmental choices build successful businesses. Whatever your need, this is the place to start.
Permit Information and Assistance
DEC can help your business grow and
operate more efficiently and environmentally. Get the assistance that your business needs to obtain a permit or check the status of a pending permit application. These resources will help you determine if you need a permit and what regulatory guidelines you should be aware of.
Greening Your Business
Improve your bottom line and incorporate sustainability into your everyday business practices. Today's businesses face a variety of challenges. Greening up your operation shouldn't be one of them. DEC has a variety of programs to help you meet your economic and environmental challenges.
More about Help for Businesses:
- P2 Intern Program - Host a summer intern to help with an environmental project that "goes beyond compliance."
- Permit Information and Assistance - Assistance with obtaining a permit or determining the status of a pending permit. Links to other resources and technical assistance for businesses.
- Greening Your Business - Programs and resources to help businesses operate in a more sustainable manner. Information on waste management, pollution prevention, and tax credits for green building.
- Green Procurement - An effort by New York State to purchase products and services that have minimal environmental impacts.
- 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
