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(Airs 02/13/26 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: State Senators in New York celebrate the passage of two bills regulating toxic "forever" chemicals, we’ll talk with Lola Brabham, President of The Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU) about this week’s Student Aid Advocacy Day, and we’ll take a closer look at an ICE immigration facility in Orange County.

Plastic pollution remains one of the world’s most challenging environmental problems. Plastic pollution has been found everywhere on Earth, from the highest mountain peaks to the deepest parts of the ocean. And scientists are finding that plastic is also moving through the air we breathe.

The global growth of electric cars has continued to rise over the past year, increasing by 20% over 2024. Worldwide, 20.7 million EVs were sold, constituting nearly 23% of all light vehicle sales.

Journalist Eugene Robinson has spent decades chronicling American democracy. In his new book, 'Freedom Lost, Freedom Won,' Robinson blends sweeping history with personal narrative, grounding the national struggle for civil rights in his own family’s story.

Few contemporary writers have examined the inner life with the intensity and candor of Karl Ove Knausgaard. His latest is 'The School of Night.' In it, he interrogates memory, identity, art, and the meaning we try to impose on our lives.

Hailed by The Booker Prize judges as a 'fierce and philosophical interrogation of human existence,' Charlotte Wood’s 'Stone Yard Devotional' chronicles 'one woman’s inward journey to make sense of the world and her life when conflicts and chaos are abundant in both realms.'

George Saunders is one of the most original voices in American fiction. His new novel, 'Vigil,' follows Jill 'Doll' Blaine, an afterlife usher summoned to guide an unrepentant oil tycoon toward death. Over one wild night, Saunders confronts power, greed, climate reckoning, and mercy itself.

Northern Irish novelist Maggie O’Farrell has long been admired for fiction that blends emotional intimacy with sweeping historical scope, and her work has found devoted readers on both sides of the Atlantic. She is the author of several acclaimed novels, including 'After You’d Gone,' 'The Hand That First Held Mine,' and 'The Marriage Portrait,' books that circle questions of love, loss, memory, and the hidden lives that shape history.Her 2020 novel 'Hamnet;' a reimagining of Shakespeare’s family life through the eyes of his wife and son; became a global bestseller and won the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Now O’Farrell has entered the film world with remarkable success.'Hamnet,' directed by Chloé Zhao, has won the Golden Globe for Best Drama and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

There are around 200,000 glaciers in the world and virtually all of them are melting with the rate accelerating. More than half of the world’s population makes use of meltwater from glaciers and snow for drinking, agriculture, and energy. Nearly 2 billion depend on seasonal glacier melt that supplies rivers and aquifers. This is especially true in Asia and in the Andes.

(Airs 02/19/26 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with New York State Assemblyman Patrick Carroll, a Democrat, about Immigration and Customs Enforcement, congestion pricing, medical aid in dying, and much more.