“Every New Yorker has the right to clean air, safe drinking water, and healthy communities to raise their children - and you can rest assured that I will aggressively protect that right, not just on Earth Day, but every day.”

American lawyer and politician

Eric Schneiderman is an American lawyer and politician. He served as the 65th attorney general of New York from 2011 until 2018, after ten years in the New York State Senate. A Democrat, he was elected attorney general after his time in the state senate. He resigned in May 2018 after allegations of physical abuse were reported, and in 2021 his law license was suspended for a year following a disciplinary proceeding in which he admitted to the conduct.