Article: DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION COMMISSIONER GRANNIS, LOCAL OFFICIALS, ADVOCATES CALL FOR PASSAGE OF BIGGER BETTER BOTTLE BILL

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issued the following news release:

Saying the clock is running out on the 2007 legislative session, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Pete Grannis today joined Brookhaven Town Supervisor Brian X. Foley and environmental advocates at Brookhaven Town Hall to call upon the State Legislature to pass the Bigger Better Bottle Bill before it goes home on June 21.

"Our 25-year old bottle bill is an unqualified success at keeping billions of bottles out of landfills and off our streets as litter," said Governor Eliot Spitzer. "Now, it's time to strengthen and modernize the bottle bill by including ...

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