The Legislative Issues series contains reports, draft reports, correspondence, notes, guidelines, fact sheets, legislation, testimony, memorandums, and news clippings pertaining to the various environmental issues pursued by Environmental Advocates. The series is further divided into eighteen subseries, including: Acid Rain, Adirondacks, Air, Bottle Bill, Energy, Funding, Hazardous Waste, Land Use, Lead, Parks and Wilderness, Pesticides, Solid Waste Management, Tobacco, Transportation, Water, Wetlands, and Wild Life. The subseries are arranged alphabetically by subseries title and thereunder by folder title.
The Acid Rain subseries contains reports, news clippings, testimony, and legislation related to the health effects of acid rain in New York and other states.
The Bottle Bill subseries contains correspondence, memorandums, legislative materials, testimony, and news clippings. Folders of interest include "Bottle Bill Commission, 1985", containing a report entitled "The New York Returnable Beverage Container Law: The First Year;" "Correspondence, 1977-1983;" and the folders entitled "Liter Memorandums."