Sentences with phrase «joint legislative hearing»

During joint legislative hearings on water quality Sept. 7, New York State committed to improve the Source Water Assessment for Newburgh, a key step, if done well, in preventing future crises.

As the first joint legislative hearing on water quality is taking place in Albany, the Cuomo administration is keeping the pressure on its main nemesis in the PFOA mess — the EPA — issuing a letter to the federal agency calling for closure of a «loophole» that exempts small community public water systems from contaminant testing requirements and threatening to act on its own to address the issue if necessary.

At 9:30 a.m., state lawmakers hold their fifth joint legislative hearing on Cuomo's 2016 - 17 budget, this time on environmental issues, Hearing Room B, LOB, Albany.

Joint legislative hearings from the Senate and Assembly Health and Environmental Conservation committees will be held in September on statewide water issues as well, with plans to hold them on Long Island and in the Legislative Office Building in Albany.

State lawmakers» growing frustration with the holes Gov. Andrew Cuomo left in his 2011 - 2012 budget proposal was on display at this morning's joint legislative hearing on economic development, which produced a frosty — albeit polite — exchange between Assemblyman Jeff Aubry and outgoing ESDC Chair Dennis Mullen.

Incidentally, Assembly Health Committee Chairman Dick Gottfried, who will be among those presiding over the joint legislative hearings, was asked during a CapTon interview last night about using the committee subpoena power to compel polluting companies like Saint Gobain to appear.

The tax cap talk at the joint legislative hearing on the state budget and its impact on local governments was dovetailed by the GOP - led Senate approving, once again, a cap on property tax increases for New York City.

But again and again, lawmakers at a joint legislative hearing seemed deeply skeptical of the state's explanations about what happened in Hoosick Falls, a riverside hamlet where PFOA has been found in dangerously high levels.

There has been some question whether those funds were intended for his year's budget, but the GOP pointed to LG Bob Duffy's testimony at a joint legislative hearing in which he confirmed that is indeed the case — sorta.

Joint legislative hearings are over, the governor's 30 - day amendments are out, and the Senate and Assembly have both put out their revenue projections.

Three key points of contention between the city and the state have emerged over transit funding, highlighted during MTA Chair Joe Lhota's testimony at the joint legislative hearing on transportation last week in Albany.

We have no plans at the moment,» Bill Finch, the acting executive director of the Thruway Authority, testified during a joint legislative hearing looking into Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget plans for the state's transportation programs.

Three key points of contention between the city and the state have emerged over transit funding, highlighted during Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) Chair Joe Lhota's testimony at the joint legislative hearing on transportation Thursday in Albany.

During a joint legislative hearing on housing, he testified that the legislation was built on the revisions to the program suggested by de Blasio — all despite the fact that Gov. Andrew Cuomo had publicly denounced many of the mayor's proposed changes.

As Mr. de Blasio outlined his case in testimony here before a joint legislative hearing, Mr. Cuomo argued in a news conference that mayoral control should remain subject to state renewal.

But, at a joint legislative hearing on water contamination held in Albany September 7th, Cuomo's environmental commissioner, Basil Seggos, testifying under oath, denied that the state allows the use of any fracking wastewater from gas drilling for roads or any other purpose in New York.

Seggos, who testified at the joint legislative hearing on environmental conservation issues in the state budget, acknowledged plastic bags remain an acute environmental issue and left the door open to potential action from his agency.

That is on display in Budget Director Bob Megna's prepared remarks this morning to the joint legislative hearing on education, where he knocked what Cuomo has described an overly burdensome «education bureaucracy.»

At 9:30 a.m., a joint legislative hearing is held on the higher education portion of Cuomo's 2015 - 16 budget, Hearing Room B, LOB, Albany.

At 9:30 a.m., a joint legislative hearing will be held on the local government section of Cuomo's 2015 - 16 budget proposal, (this was re-scheduled due to a snowstorm), NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will testify first, Hearing Room B, Legislative Office Building, 181 State St., Albany.

At 10 a.m., de Blasio testifies at a joint legislative hearing on the local governments portion of Cuomo's budget proposal, Legislative Office Building — Hearing Room B, 198 State St., Albany.

Also at 12:30 p.m., a joint legislative hearing is held on the higher education portion of Cuomo's 2016 - 17 budget proposal, Hearing Room B, LOB, Albany.

Yesterday, during a joint legislative hearing on Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposed executive budget, Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens was peppered with questions from legislators about the administration's fracking plans.

N.Y. State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker, right, testifies at a joint legislative hearing on water quality at the Capitol in Albany on Wednesday.

The EPA nominated Hoosick Falls as a federal Superfund site on the same day the Senate and Assembly held their joint legislative hearing on water quality in New York.

The focus on higher education the first day is a break with tradition, as lawmakers have generally scheduled the first day of the joint legislative hearings on the budget to be «tin cup» day — when mayors and local government officials discuss the impact of the spending proposal on their municipality.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew offered lawmakers a solid and sensible plan for facing the state's economic challenges without hurting students during a joint legislative hearing on the governor's proposed education budget on Feb. 15 in Albany.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew testified on Feb. 15 at a joint legislative hearing regarding Gov. Cuomo's proposed education budget.

But at a joint legislative hearing on water contamination held in Albany on September 7, Cuomo's environmental commissioner, Basil Seggos, testifying under oath, denied that that the state allows the use of any fracking wastewater from gas drilling for roads or any other purpose in New York.