Inside New York’s Messy Push to Clean Up Concrete
If concrete production were a country, it would be the world’s third largest carbon emitter. New York legislators want to clean it up.
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New York’s transparency watchdog found that the ethics commission violated open records law by redacting its own recusal forms.
New York has one of the weakest consumer protection laws in the country. This year’s state budget may change that.
Guidelines limiting gifts of taxpayer resources have “no teeth whatsoever,” according to good government watchdog.
The Assembly and Senate want to beef up labor standards and farmland protections for clean energy projects. Developers say that would slow down the energy transition.
State investigators accused the gas utility of “sloppiness” in managing customer funds, but took a light touch in enforcement.
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