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Feds Select More Long Island Waters For Wind Energy
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Long Island Water Suppliers Get Extra Time To Meet State Standards
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Albany, NY) Today, the Senate Majority will pass its one-house budget resolution that delivers emergency aid to help New York recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and invests in a brighter, more equitable future by fully funding essential services and putting more money in the pockets of working and middle-class families. The Senate resolution increases total school aid by $5.7 billion, provides billions in residential and commercial rental and foreclosure assistance, restores critical funding to our health care system, and jumpstarts our economy with investments in transportation and small businesses. The Senate Majority’s proposal asks the wealthiest New Yorkers to pay their fair share rather than balancing the budget on the backs of working families.
Brookhaven dumps plan to build ashfill to collect burned trash
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A proposed bill in New York plans to help Long Island with its ongoing solid waste management crisis. The region is still working on a plan on where to put its garbage once the Brookhaven Landfill is expected to close in 2024.
The legislation, still in its early stages, sets up an extended producer responsibility program to encourage manufacturers to limit the amount of packaging that is produced.
Scott Cassel is with the Product Stewardship Institute, an organization that looks to reduce the environmental impacts of consumer products. He explains how the program would work.
“It would mean that those that produce paper and packaging would actually have to fund the cost or a significant amount of the cost of recycling. And depending on how eco-friendly or how much of the material they would make, those producers would pay more into the system or less, depending on those factors,” Cassel said during a forum hosted by the New York League of Conserva