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In today’s CapCon, state lawmakers met in Albany Tuesday to discuss their strategy on what’s become a controversial but consequential issue: battery energy storage.
Then, state Sen. Peter Harckham has introduced a bill that would end the state’s system of avoiding local tax payments to localities for land it owns.
Later, there’s a lot going on in state government this week, including a state Senate hearing on cybersecurity and public meetings on cannabis, opioids and reparations.
And, Hochul signed five bills Monday, including three on the environment and two targeted at police pensions in New York City.
Plus: Check out this giant machine that’s apparently going to dig the Gateway Tunnel and environmental advocates plan to protest Mayor Zohran Mamdani Tuesday.
Names in today’s CapCon: Dan Clark, Peter Harckham, Kathy Hochul, Mikie Sherrill, Joseph R. Biden, Donald J. Trump, Zohran Mamdani, Eric Adams, Steve Otis, Liz Krueger, Judy Griffin, Charles Fall, Andrew Gounardes, Jessica S. Tisch, Jessica Scarcella-Spanton, Stacey Pheffer Amato
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