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Advanced Transmission and Grid Enhancing Technologies are good policy!

Happy Earth Day! Yesterday we passed 2 great solar bills: ASAP to reduce red tape for rooftop solar and expand our goal from 6gw to 20gw by 2035, and SUNNY for plug and play balcony solar. Here’s to more energy from the sun here in NY!

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Passing Earth Day bill package in the NYSenate. So far, GOP is opposing subsidies for electric landscaping equipment and heat pumps, proper disposal of mercury thermostats, protections against poisonous cosmetics or lead pipes, and creation of a state composting program. How do they sleep at night?

Trolls can be so funny

Caught up with the amazing Robin Kimmerer at a tree planting event for protecting a local watershed. She's started a movement at plantbabyplant.com - check it out!

Just passed my bill for Advanced Transmission Technoloogies! This will push utilities to use the grid more efficiently and bring energy rates down. Of course the GOP voted Nay because... something, something battery storage ... too much regulation. Or. more likely, because the simply don't care.

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I've been pushing the right to repair farm equipment in the NY legislature for years now. Under the settlement Deere must provide “the digital tools ​required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair” of tractors, combines, and other machinery for 10 years." www.thedrive.com/news/john-de...

John Deere to Pay $99 Million in Monumental Right-to-Repair SettlementThe ag manufacturing giant will also make digital diagnostic, maintenance, and repair tools available to third parties for 10 years.www.thedrive.com

A bit of sci-fi, a little free library, a reference to my neighbor Bruce Coville - gems all around. Looking forward to the next chapter! open.substack.com/pub/rogermis...

LITTLE FREE GALAXY~A big story about little libraries~ Chapter 1open.substack.com

Cue POTUS declaring this a HUGE success because it brought domestic prices closer in line with imports. Who cares if absolutely everyone is worse off?

My friend Chris wins Best Protest Sign.

This is where we are. It is newsworthy that two - count them, 2! - Republicans can bring themselves to state the obvious. Otherwise the Grift Over Patriotism party just goes along with the insane Russian stooge they've canonized. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Republican senators McConnell and Tillis break with Trump on Nato withdrawalThey warned leaving the alliance would aid rivals, threaten US security and require Senate approval under 2024 lawwww.theguardian.com

Feels like a good moment to re-up this classic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q71X...

How Is The Dow - Auto-Tune The News, Wherein Pam Bondi Discovers An Unassailable Riposte That CannoYouTube video by schmoyohowww.youtube.com

Because who needs enforcement of consumer protection laws or supervision of Big Finance? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/u...

Trump Administration Scales Back Plan to Dismantle Consumer Protection Bureauwww.nytimes.com

Housing committee today in NY Senate: GOP votes for unbridled rent increases, no subsidies for caregiver housing, and maximizing waste from construction. “We need more housing,” they chant, while rejecting anything that increases density or reduces restrictive codes. The nihilist party.

Ha ha ha ha ha! This was such a dumb fight for the airport to pick. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/03...

Syracuse airport tried to ban a lawyer’s harassment ad. Now it takes up two wallsThe Syracuse airport told lawyer Megan Thomas her ad needed to be toned down. She sued them and got two bigger signs.www.syracuse.com

I said: Everyone point up at the sky and say “No Kings!” Then drop your hand down behind your head and thank your spine for standing up today. Keep it there a moment, to show Republicans how easy it is to find your spine, and how good it feels to use it.

This is a beautiful story about the power of showing up. I believe it made a difference to have so many of us on his zoom bond hearing; I deliberately identified myself as Senator in the zoom and maybe that swayed the judge a little bit, too. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/03...

My county exec is seeking developers for a Gen Z single family housing project @375K/unit, county pays for the infrastructure. All I can think is where’s the playground, can you walk to groceries, bike to work? And does Gen Z want this?

Big demo at the NYS Capitol today against any rollback of our climate protection law.