Senate GOP Majority Leader John Flanagan walked away from a reporter on Monday rather than answer a question as to why he had not called for legislative hearings
into water quality issues around the state.
Not exact matches
But now, McLaughlin, a state assemblyman from Rensselaer County, is stepping up his efforts to shame his fellow Republicans in the upper house
into holding hearings on
water quality issues in Hoosick Falls.
This week the New York State Assembly Committees on Health and Environmental Conservation announced hearings
into examine the
quality of the state's drinking
water and state government's responses to contamination
issues.
A spokesman for DEP — they always have an answer — said the
issue wasn't muddy
water released in torrents
into the Esopus from the reservoir, but the
quality of
water coming out of taps in Gotham.