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by Emma Quinn – Mon, March 17th 2025 at 6:00 PM CAPITAL REGION, NY (WRGB) — The start of COVID-19 brought many unknowns for everyone, especially business owners. “Every day we were learning something new or the state was coming out with a new directive and businesses were struggling to adapt,” said Justin Wilcox, Executive Director of […]

Tuesday, March 4, 2025 – View the full story from Emma Quinn here. CAPITAL REGION, NY (WRGB) — A Tariff war is underway between the U.S. and Canada and the US and Mexico. At midnight 25 percent tariffs went into effect. Many Americans are now worried about how this will impact their wallets. Financial experts […]

February 7, 2025 – Read the full story here. West Virginia led the charge against New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act, suing to block the law that requires polluters to pay for environmental damage based on how many tons of fossil fuels they emitted during a specific period of time. John McCuskey, West Virginia’s Attorney General, […]

Albany, Feb. 07, 2025 Read the whole story from Jack Arpey here.  As many expected, New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act is likely heading to court. A lawsuit by 22 Republican attorneys general, backed by coal oil and gas companies, was filed this week with West Virginia taking the lead. “They’ve said the effects of […]

February 3, 2025 Watch the piece by Briana Supardi here. ALBANY, N.Y. — President Trump’s 10-percent tariff on Canadian energy, set to take effect Tuesday, is expected to impact New York State, where a substantial portion of energy supply is sourced from Canada. Experts warn that the tariff could lead to increased costs for electricity […]

January 30, 2025 Read Justin Wilcox’s Piece in the Buffalo News here. Like many New Yorkers, I listened with interest to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s recent State of the State address. Knowing the many challenges facing New York, especially upstate, it was reassuring to hear that the governor’s focus went immediately to the “affordability” crisis that […]

Justin Wilcox Special to the USA TODAY Network Only in Albany would leaders propose penalizing oil and gas companies at the very moment we depend on these products to heat our homes and fuel our snowplows during the harsh winter months. Yet, that’s exactly what Gov. Kathy Hochul did when she signed the Climate Change […]

By Carl Campanile and Vaughn Golden Published Jan. 15, 2025, 7:30 p.m. ET Gov. Kathy Hochul has green activists seeing red. The governor blindsided environmentalists for postponing a controversial “cap and invest” program that critics warned would send gas and home-heating oil prices soaring. The activists complained that Hochul blinked on a promise from two years ago to tax fossil […]

By Michael GormleyDecember 26, 2024 5:59 pm ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday approved the legislature’s bill to require the world’s biggest oil and gas companies to pay $75 billion for repairs from superstorms and other remediation forced by climate change. Supporters have lauded the bill as an ambitious effort to protect taxpayers from […]

The superfund bill was a top climate priority this year. It will likely face court challenges from major fuel producers. By Raga Justin,Capitol Bureau Dec 26, 2024 ALBANY — Oil and gas companies could be on the hook for billions of dollars to compensate for environmental pollution after Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed the Climate […]