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Health costs quietly rise in New York State as hospitals buy more private practices  (Newsday, June 3, 2025)

Recycling, HEAT Act, bottle bill are key issues as NYS lawmakers near end of session  (Newsday, May 26, 2025)

One budget failure  (WAMC, May 19, 2025)

The Bottle Bill: What’s bigger and what's better about it?  (Spectrum News, May 19, 2025)

Incentive for electric lawn equipment brings demo to New York state Capitol  (Spectrum News, May 14, 2025)

How Long Island SUNY campuses will spend $37 million in funding boost from state budget  (Newsday, May 14, 2025)

Supporters Gather in Albany for Bigger, Better, Bottle Bill  (Fingerlakes Daily News, May 13, 2025)

Lawmakers channel budget frustrations with Hochul into bipartisan constitutional amendment push  (Spectrum News, May 13, 2025)

New York has a budget  (WAMC, May 12, 2025)

NY Assembly Fails To Tackle Energy Affordability Crisis, Siding With Corporate Utilities  (Harlem World Magazine, May 8, 2025)

NY's latest budget in fifteen years  (WAMC, May 5, 2025)

NYS budget process: Created in secret, with limited public review and getting 'worse'  (Newsday, May 4, 2025)

It's official: This year's budget is the latest in 15 years  (City & State, May 2, 2025)

Final touches being applied to latest New York budget since 2010, as good government groups bestow shame  (Spectrum News, May 2, 2025)

Students Lead Town Hall On Future Of Subway Expansion  (The Wave, May 2, 2025)

NY hospital safety ranking rises nationally: How did Hudson Valley fare?  (Poughkeepsie Journal, May 1, 2025)

Queens College students host town hall rallying support for QueensLink subway proposal  (Qns.com, April 29, 2025)

Albany's trash problem  (WAMC, April 28, 2025)

Sun shines for 4th annual ‘Earth Fest’  (WBNG, April 27, 2025)

With momentum growing in the state legislature to pass a statewide rebate program for purchasing electric lawn equipment, representatives from STIHL, EGO, Milwaukee Tools, Ryobi, The Home Depot, and Ace Hardware joined organizers from NYPIRG, Environment America, and other advocacy groups for an informative day of testing out cleaner, quieter electric lawn equipment. The “Electric Lawn Equipment Demo Day” offered state legislators and their staff, as well local residents, the opportunity to learn about the benefits of going electric.

Marking the 500th day since the Department of Environmental Conservation released its once-in-a-decade “Solid Waste Management Plan,” a coalition of environmental, charities, and small businesses today called on the State Senate and Assembly to pass the Bigger, Better, Bottle Bill (S.5684/A.6543) and the "Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act" (S.1464/A.1749). The groups cited the failure of the state to attack the mounting packaging and beverage container trash crisis as a compelling rationale for legislative action this session. All of the state’s landfills are set to fill up within the next 25 years, but there’s no plan in place to reduce waste and stave off a crisis. The groups urged approval of packaging and bottle bill legislation to help curb New York’s mounting garbage problem.

Reconnecting Queens: Students Lead the Charge for Subway Expansion at QueensLink Town Hall More than 100 students, faculty, and community members gathered at Queens College for a town hall spotlighting the QueensLink proposal — a community-driven plan to transform the defunct Rockaway Beach Branch into a new north-south subway line through Queens. Hosted by NYPIRG, the event featured interactive stations, personal storytelling, and direct engagement with project leaders. With Queens residents facing some of the city's longest and most unreliable commutes, attendees voiced strong support for the plan’s potential to connect transit-starved neighborhoods, slash travel times, and foster sustainable growth. Student organizers emphasized the importance of community voices in shaping transit policy, especially as QueensLink clears key funding hurdles and gains political momentum.

CITING A NEW POLL, ENVIRONMENTALISTS URGE ACTION ON PACKAGING AND "BOTTLE BILL" LEGISLATION A coalition of environmental groups today reacted to a new Siena Poll released today that shows that New York residents overwhelmingly support state policies to reduce single-use plastic packaging in New York. Seventy-three percent think big companies should be required to reduce packaging on their products, as proposed in the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act. And 61% want the beverage container deposit increased from 5 to 10 cents, as proposed in the Bigger Better Bottle Bill.

NEW REPORT SHOWS THAT NY TAXPAYERS COULD SAVE TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IF BIGGER, BETTER, BOTTLE BILL IS PASSED New York’s local governments could save tens of millions of dollars if lawmakers approved legislation to modernize the state’s “Bottle Bill.” That’s according to a new report released by a coalition of environmental, civic, labor and business organizations. The report, produced by the think tank Eunomia, found that the state’s local governments could save as much as $108 million if lawmakers approved the “Bigger Better Bottle Bill,” legislation designed to modernize the four-decade-old law. The state’s Bottle Bill is the law that requires a nickel deposit for certain beverage containers and is redeemed when the consumer brings the container back to the store.

NYPIRG STATEMENT ON THE PRESIDENT’S EXECUTIVE ORDER SEEKING TO OVERTURN NEW YORK’S CLIMATE CHANGE SUPERFUND ACT EXECUTIVE ORDER MEANS A $3 BILLION TAB FOR ALL NEW YORK TAXPAYERS TO SHIELD BIG OIL President Trump yesterday signed an executive order that, among other things, attempts to overturn New York’s landmark Climate Change Superfund Act. The Act was approved to mitigate the costs to state taxpayers resulting from the damage caused by the ongoing climate catastrophe.

AS STATE SENATE PASSES ELECTRIC LAWN EQUIPMENT REBATE BILL WITH BIPARTISAN SUPPORT, 100 GROUPS ENDORSE PROPOSAL

As lawmakers consider the governor’s proposed higher education budget, NYPIRG today released a policy paper, “Promises made, promises broken.” The paper examined higher education policies which undermined the finances of public colleges and colleges in the independent sector.

REPORT AND NEWS RELEASE: Examining Delays in the Small Claims Courts Throughout New York State and Recommendations for Reform

NYPIRG applauds the decision by the New York State Court of Appeals to uphold the constitutionality of the state’s ethics and lobbying law and reject the separation of powers arguments advanced by former Governor Andrew Cuomo.