Increase planning and investment in coastal habitats

Increase investment in tidal wetland and other coastal habitat protection, restoration, and monitoring.

Page 379: "The Legislature, DEC, and DOS should increase investment in the protection, restoration, and monitoring of existing tidal wetlands, including submerged aquatic vegetation, to protect their ability to sequester carbon from declines due to marsh drowning, sediment starvation, and seagrass die-offs caused by pollution in runoff and coastal water quality (such as the “Clean Water, Clean Air, and Green Jobs” Environmental Bond Act or the EPF, and grants programs like the Conservation Partnership Program)."