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The Guest Column by Justin Wilcox can also be found on the Daily Gazette’s website here. In New York, we are now in the strange position of building world-class energy technology that cannot be used in our own state. Components manufactured in Schenectady will soon help power grids around the world, but won’t be allowed […]

BY Kate Lisa New York State PUBLISHED 9:14 PM ET Jul. 24, 2025 Big tech companies hope the release of the White House’s plan to develop artificial intelligence in the U.S. will make state leaders think twice about implementing proposed industry regulations in New York. President Donald Trump’s administration released its blueprint Wednesday to build American AI infrastructure and […]

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 […]