New York sets deadline for marijuana cultivation-sustainability plans

On Sep 28, 2024

Marijuana cultivators in New York have until Aug. 31, 2025, to submit sustainability plans to regulators as part of an initiative to lessen the environmental impact of the state’s bourgeoning cannabis industry.

According to plans revealed Tuesday, New York’s Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) will begin monitoring how efficiently cultivators are growing marijuana and whether they are meeting state energy mandates that other industries must adhere to, Spectrum News 1 reported.

To help cultivators with sustainability monitoring, in the first week of September, the OCM will roll out PowerScore, a free online tool for helping track electricity, water use and waste.

“You can’t improve what you don’t measure and you can’t track what you don’t measure,” the agency’s director of policy, John

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