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The New York State Restaurant Association calls alcohol-to-go key to the industry’s recovery.

But it still must be negotiated with Gov. Kathy Hochul.

N.Y. State Senator Tom OMaras weekly opinion column

A boom in the oil and gas industry helped deliver a record-breaking $8.5 billion budget to New Mexico this year. Despite the windfall, lawmakers declined to give needed funds to the agencies responsible for regulating the increased pollution that such booms create. The state’s two primary environmental agencies, the New Mexico Environment Department and the Energy, […]

In recent years, legislators have declined to put the excess cash brought in during oil booms toward enforcing environmental regulations.

Lawmakers decline to give needed funds for regulating oil and gas pollution

While a variety of energy and environment bills were introduced during the Legislative session, few managed to make it to the governor’s desk. The Green Amendment, which would have allowed voters to decide if the state’s Constitution’s Bill of Rights should be amended to include environmental rights, was tabled in the House Judiciary Committee and […]

Gov. Hochul has scrapped her proposal for accessory dwelling units in the state budget.

Gov. Kathy Hochul is proposing to spend billions on economic development programs that critics want to allocate to social programs.

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, wrote the National Assembly seeking the approval of a supplementary budget of.......