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Dec 22 2025

Upstate United Responds to Approval of Expansion of Prevailing Wage and 100-Foot Rule

The following can be attributed to Justin Wilcox, Executive Director of Upstate United Expansion of Prevailing Wage: “While the Governor’s approval memo for legislation to expand prevailing wage mandates to custom prefabrication work acknowledges that certain projects will be exempt to mitigate cost impacts, this bill will still significantly increase costs across the industry. It is deeply disappointing […]



Dec 16 2025

Upstate United Responds to Approval of the 2025 State Energy Plan

The following statement can be attributed to Justin Wilcox, Executive Director of Upstate United “We are encouraged that the State Energy Plan (SEP) acknowledges our long-standing concerns with the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act’s (CLCPA) impact on affordability and grid reliability. While we appreciate that the governor, her office, and state agency leaders now […]



Dec 11 2025

Upstate United Responds to Push for Government Takeover of Utility 

The following statement can be attributed to Justin Wilcox, Executive Director of Upstate United “Yesterday’s New York Times piece about spurring eminent domain to buy out Central Hudson and replace it with a government-run utility sheds light on the false narrative that this is the solution to achieving lower utility bills. On the contrary, a government takeover […]




Nov 26 2025

Rochester Beacon: A climate agenda under strain

By NARM NATHAN – Read the article online here. Some of Alex Amorese’s clients planning large real estate projects are uncertain about the future. Amorese, who sells commercial real estate for CBRE and works closely with local developers, often runs into the power challenge–whether it’s in the town of Henrietta or the city of Canandaigua. Either […]



Nov 19 2025

Buffalo News Another Voice: Albany’s energy inaction endangers New York’s economic future

November 19, 2025 Opinion by Justin Wilcox – Read at Buffalo News here. Abundant, affordable and reliable energy is inseparable from economic growth. Yet New York’s policies threaten all three, straining the grid and imperiling employers, workers and ratepayers. The New York Independent System Operator’s latest Short-Term Assessment of Reliability found reliability violations for New […]