Day: June 20, 2025

Here are the Bills That NY Lawmakers Passed, and Didn’t Pass, This Year

Lawmakers in the New York state Legislature raced to pass more than 800 bills this year. The pace accelerated in the final days of session this week, as they worked to make up for time lost during prolonged budget negotiations that concluded nearly two months past the April 1 deadline. The legislation now heads to […]
Here are the Bills That NY Lawmakers Passed, and Didn’t Pass, This Year

NY Lawmakers Put Brakes on Plastic Packaging and Other Environmental Bills

Environmental advocates had hoped that this would be the year New York would pass large-scale, affordable environmental policies. But when the legislative session ended after midnight Wednesday, state lawmakers had failed to enact any of the signature bills on an ambitious agenda that sought to curtail New Yorkers’ use of fossil fuels and plastics, nor […]
NY Lawmakers Put Brakes on Plastic Packaging and Other Environmental Bills

Only Two Towns in New York State Ban the Use of ‘Sewage Sludge’ as Fertilizer

The town of Cameron in Steuben County became the second town in New York to ban the practice of landspreading using sewage sludge.The town board adopted the law at its monthly board meeting on June 11. The town worked with the environmental legal firm Earthjustice to ban the use of sewage sludge—also known as biosolids—on land applications […]
Only Two Towns in New York State Ban the Use of ‘Sewage Sludge’ as Fertilizer

NY Lawmakers Pass Watered-Down Consumer Protections as Session Ends

Albany lawmakers scaled down a consumer protection measure before concluding their annual session and walked away from proposed reforms to the live-event ticket market that could have capped fees. The changes came after a flurry of last-minute lobbying by business groups, who said the measures would hinder their operations and prompt a surge of lawsuits. […]
NY Lawmakers Pass Watered-Down Consumer Protections as Session Ends