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May 10, 2024
New York conservation law reforms facing opposition
BY RYAN WHALEN | BUFFALO
PUBLISHED 7:29 PM ET MAY 09, 2024 via Spectrum Local News
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The New York State Assembly moved legislation expanding the state’s bottle deposit program and another aimed at reducing the production of packaging plastics out of the Ways and Means Committee this week.
Labor groups, including Teamsters and AFL-CIO, as well as industry groups like the Association of Convenience Stores, have sent letters of opposition to lawmakers.
“We’re in the process of trying to understand what exactly their real specific concern is. Saying it’s ‘burdensome’ is insufficiently specific for us to address,” Assembly Member Deborah Glick, D-Manhattan, said.
Glick, who sponsors both bills, has asked the body to conference the proposals.
“Which is a way of giving the members an opportunity to ask the sponsor questions and not rely on some of the misinformation or the slanted arguments that have come in memos which is part of the process,” she said.