environment

"We want to get the job done to make the roads safe, but I don't want salt laying all over the roads and having piles of it. It's not good for the environment."

Critics of his proposed changes say they would favor corporate interests over public health, allowing the potential for air and water quality to be compromised.

Fracking pollution not included in study; could lessen health benefits, author says

Wegmans debuted the no-plastic policy at its Corning and Ithaca stores and called the pilot program successful.

The measure would make illegal the use of the plastic foam for single-use food containers by restaurants, caterers, food trucks, retail food stores, delis and grocery stores.

State regulators have released new rules to enforce the changes, but groups on both sides of the issue say those rules are flawed.

“I’ve been on the road pretty much constantly for six months."

Taxes and bans on single use plastics try to combat plastics in the oceans

They're delivering petitions to Albany this week, signed by more than 7,000 residents across the state who say they want New York to reduce vehicle emissions by 55 percent by 2035.

Amid federal inaction, there's no consensus on how much of the PFAS class of chemicals is too much.