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After the NYPD's interdiction, Bowman condemned the move as 'brutality being inflicted on peaceful students' whom he stated were supporting 'liberation…

State lawmakers are pushing sweeping legislation that aims to ban slices of cheese that are individually packaged in thin micro-plastic wrapping.

State lawmakers are pushing sweeping legislation that aims to ban slices of cheese that are individually packaged in thin micro-plastic wrapping.

A coalition of green energy advocates is asking Albany to raise the solar tax credit for residents.

After the worst year on record for overdose deaths in New York, Governor Kathy Hochul wants to level off investment in addiction treatment. Under Hochul’s

State Assembly Republicans and local school district officials are calling for a feasibility and affordability study of the state’s plan to require schools to transition to all zero-emission school buses by 2035.

Environmental groups want to pass a law in 2024 to cut plastic packing by half.

Government officials estimate it will cost nearly $44 billion to fulfill the state's climate law, which aims to stop powering the state with polluting fossil fuels and reduce 85 percent of greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by 2050. 

Environmental groups see the pipeline project as a step backward in honoring the state's landmark 2019 climate law, which seeks to move away from fossil fuels and guarantee that 70 percent of New York's electricity comes from renewable energy sources by 2030. 

The legislation would phase in reductions in plastic packaging over several years and ban a practice known as “chemical recycling.”