Planning for Green Infrastructure (GI) includes approaches for stormwater management, landscape conservation, and increasingly as an integrative approach for land use and infrastructure planning. As GI programs have developed, equity concerns have arisen, largely centering on the potential of investments in urban greening to replicate historical dynamics of displacement and gentrification. These concerns highlight procedural and conceptual issues around what GI programs entail, and what social processes are used to plan for and evaluate GI. No clear orientations of what equity means in GI programs in New York State (NYS) have been identified to date. To fill this gap in NYS, we undertook a policy scan and survey of planning organizations to see how GI is currently being planned for, and if and how equity considerations are addressed. Examining 13 County, 19 Federal, 979 Municipal and City, and 12 Statewide programs only 4% explicitly address equity. Survey of practitioners finds that that GI is largely a compliance and aspirational planning strategy with limited salience for smaller municipalities. A review of existing equity approaches identifies procedural and conceptual gaps partially addressed by approaches in other states. There remains a need for clear articulations of equity in environmental planning and for tools that enable municipalities to assess GI’s potential to mitigate environmental risks and add social and ecological value.