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Read the Guest Opinion by Justin Wilcox here. Justin Wilcox, of Brighton, is executive director of Upstate United, a nonpartisan business and taxpayer advocacy coalition focused on growing the Upstate economy. The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), New York’s sweeping 2019 law requiring dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, is no longer financially feasible or practically achievable, and […]

To the Editor: With Gov. Hochul’s directive to the New York Power Authority to add at least 1 gigawatt of nuclear power generation, come many questions. First and foremost, is the state’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) dead? Making such a major decision to rely on the state’s public electric utility leaves the […]

BY Susan Arbetter New York State PUBLISHED 7:30 PM ET Jun. 25, 2025 – Watch Here. Gov. Kathy Hochul is directing the New York Power Authority to build a zero-emission nuclear power plant somewhere in upstate New York, where the state’s three other nuclear power plants reside. The move comes as a surprise to clean energy advocates […]

New York has long stood at the forefront of American innovation. Take my hometown of Rochester: From Kodak’s pioneering role in the development of modern photography to the contribution of local scientists and engineers in ensuring the success of the Hubble Space Telescope, the region has long been synonymous with advanced technologies. Today, we’re poised […]

Hey New Yorkers, your utility bill is broken! For decades, your utility bill has been the victim of policies and legislative mandates that have inflated costs unrelated to a utility’s core business, and legal obligation to deliver safe and reliable energy. New Yorkers can’t voice their concerns to their elected officials when these costs remain […]

June 9, 2025 Article by Louse Hoffman Broach ALBANY — Dairy all the way … until the cows come home. All of the cows. That’s the message that some upstate lawmakers sent last week to a New York City Democrat who has proposed a law that would place a ceiling on the number of cows […]

June 7, 2025 Article by Kori Sciandra and Alex Gault Two state lawmakers from New York City want to ban dairy farms from expanding beyond 700 cows, a move they say would help protect the environment and preserve small, family-owned dairy farms. Recently, Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal, D-Manhattan, and state Sen. Jabari Brisport, D-Brooklyn, introduced […]

By JUSTIN WILCOX | June 2, 2025 As the cost of living climbs, New York policymakers have begun to talk a lot about affordability. And they should—the Empire State is one of the most expensive places in the country to live or operate a business. Unfortunately, as often happens, well intended but poorly crafted legislative proposals bring with them unintended […]

by: Jamie DeLine – May 30, 2025 Watch the full piece on WTEN here. ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Brooklyn Senator Jabari Brisport has legislation that would stop the Department of Environmental Conservation from giving any permits for new or expanding large concentrated animal feeding operations, known as CAFOs. Those are farms at that have 700 dairy […]