Here's everything in the new omnibus bill on data centers in New York: https://t.co/RgaqyTcOMm
Plus: Details on the redistricting amendment, including a new twist, the packaging bill's chances look slim at this point, a new Cannabis Industry Wage Board is being teed up and more
Allowing New Yorkers to create their own solar energy will bring down bills and emissions. It’ll expand the group of people who are personally invested in renewable energy.
This is a very popular bill with ConEd support. The Gov should sign it. https://t.co/JmnpM9thVK
Data centers are a giveaway to tech oligarchs on the backs of New Yorkers. They suck up energy, raise our utility rates, hog our water, and pollute our environment.
They are coming online faster than policy—we need a moratorium while we develop a regulatory approach.
My bill just passed requiring vehicles outside of NYC to allow a safe distance of at least 3 feet when passing cyclists.
This common-sense change ensures that both cyclists and vehicles share the roads safely for all areas of the state where implementation can be accomplished.
Exclu: Mayor Mamdani is set to announce this morning plans to turn Brooklyns Bergen and Dean Streets, two heavily used bike corridors that currently have painted lanes, into bike boulevards.
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Today marks 20 session days left on NY's legislative calendar. The late budget means a time crunch as lawmakers hope to get hundreds of bills passed including controversial measures such as the packaging bill and to allow mid-decade redistricting.
More:
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Governor Hochul is always late:
✅late budgets
✅late meeting CLCPA regulatory deadlines
and
✅late starting news conferences
Eager to hear the Guv's latest spin for how gutting our climate law will help people while expensive gas keeps getting more expensive.
“Holding the line” by trying to gut NY’s nation leading climate law in a secret budget deal. Aka weakening the key tool NY has to get people away from expensive fossil fuels.
Can (and will) state policymakers do anything this winter to lower utility bills?
We consider the range of possibilities and their limitations with @m_jfrench.
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