bottle bill expansion

(Airs 11/21/25 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Governor Kathy Hochul approves amendments to the Adirondack State Land Master Plan, we’ll talk with Blair Horner, Senior Advisor at NYPIRG, about the state’s bottle bill, and Spectrum news reporter Emily Kenny tells us about her investigation into programs for the homeless in Central and Western New York.

(Airs 11/27/25 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Blair Horner, Senior Policy Advisor for The New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), about Blair not liking “Big Oil” getting big tax breaks amid a climate crisis, wanting the bottle bill to be expanded, and much more.

Vermont Governor Phil Scott has vetoed a bill intended to expand the state’s bottle redemption law.

A coalition of over 300 organizations and businesses is calling for an updated bottle bill in New York.

Ahead of his State of the State and budget address Tuesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that a bottle bill expansion and plastic bag ban…