Kathy Hochul

Governor Kathy Hochul’s proposal to delay for a decade New York State’s climate goals meets with stiff opposition from environmental and health advocates.

New Yorkers will pay $33 billion from 2029–2049 to keep four aging upstate nuclear plants operating, under a new PSC approval. Column by Karl Grossman

Proposed changes to New York’s State Environmental Quality Review Act, or SEQRA, dominated the discussion during State Sen. Anthony Palumbo’s annual “environmental roundtable” Monday in Riverhead.

Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed 140 bills passed by the State Legislature before she left for the Christmas holiday.

There’s a big change for students going back to school this year: a bell-to-bell ban on the use of personal smartphones in school buildings and on school grounds during the school day. 

In late June, Governor Kathy Hochul vowed to build New York’s first new nuclear power station in nearly four decades, advancing one of the most aggressive plans by any state to revitalize the United States’ stagnant atomic energy industry.

Governor Kathy Hochul continued her push for nuclear power in New York State with her June 21 announcement that she has directed the New York Power Authority to develop a new nuclear power plant upstate.

Legislation requiring industrial development agencies to have school district and labor union representatives on their governing boards was vetoed by Gov. Kathy Hochul last week. 

The “conceptual agreement with legislative leaders will allow both houses to begin adopting bills to implement the 2024 budget.

Foundation aid, which is determined based on a formula established by the state legislature factoring in wealth, cost of living and the regional economics, was enacted in 2007 in response to a court ruling that the state’s funding of public schools was inadequate and unconstitutional.