![]() ![]() A New York Times article about The 13th Step published earlier this week describes that danger in greater detail. It also gets personal - illustrating the danger for journalists and their sources, when they expose alleged wrongdoing by powerful people. And why America can’t truly address the addiction crisis until it takes “the 13th step” seriously. This new seven-part series – from the team who made hit podcasts Bear Brook and Stranglehold – explains why that misconduct remains unpoliceable. A phenomenon people in the recovery world call “the 13th step.” She found a longstanding – and long tolerated – culture of sexual misconduct. How did he get away with it? That question led investigative reporter Lauren Chooljian on a journey into the American addiction treatment industry. Eventually, multiple sources said it was an open secret: The founder of New Hampshire’s largest addiction treatment network was sexually harassing or assaulting women – allegations he denies. “So we're working as hard as we can.”Īssembly Speaker Carl Heastie has said that while the session might extend a couple of days into the weekend, he does not anticipate lawmakers returning to the Capitol after this week.It started with a tip. “They have a lot of mouths to feed right now,” Harckham said. Harckham said he knows that his bill is competing for attention with many other measures as the days wind down. In part, the fate of the environmental bills, as well as many other measures unresolved in the final days of the session, comes down to timing.įor any major piece of legislation, the majority parties in each house - in this case, the Democrats - need to discuss the issue in closed-door party conferences, where every lawmaker who wants to speak on a matter typically gets the chance to have their say.Īnd there are only so many hours left to discuss items. “We think they should be on the hook,” he said. Oil companies should “pick up their fair share” of the tab since they caused the problem, Horner said. “And right now, they're going to have to pay out of their own tax bills.” “There are huge issues still facing the state with regard to climate change there are staggering, staggering costs that New Yorkers are going to face,” Horner said. ![]() It would be financed by the oil industry.īlair Horner is with the New York Public Interest Research Group, which backs all three measures. It would cap energy bills at 6% of income for low- and middle-income families, saving an estimated $75 per utility customer.Īnd another bill would create a new Superfund to repair climate change caused by gasoline and other fossil fuel emissions. They said the process is not technically incineration because it does not use oxygen as a fuel or accelerant.Īnother measure promoted by environmental advocates and opposed by industry is called NY Heat. They also oppose the banning of a method they call “advanced recycling,” which they said differs with the environmentalists’ contention that it involves the burning of plastics. In a letter signed by 65 groups, they said the amendments were made without input from stakeholders, and that the changes would incorrectly classify too many plastics as toxic substances. I don't think this is a radical notion.”īut the American Chemistry Council, major plastics manufacturers, and the state’s Business Council remain opposed. “This should be something where our friends in industry take some responsibility for the waste that they generate in our homes. This should not be just the responsibility of the municipalities and the taxpayers,” Glick said. She said the new version would share more of the costs of reducing the packaging. Glick said the bill has been amended in recent days to win more votes. The sponsors of the measure are the chairs of the Senate and Assembly environmental committees, Peter Harckham and Deborah Glick. It would also ban a practice favored by the plastics industry to burn plastic materials that can’t be recycled because the recycling industry is now over capacity. One of the bills would cut the amount of plastic packaging, with a 50% reduction phased in over 12 years. With the legislative session set to end later this week, advocates are pressing for bills that they say will help reduce climate change over the next decade.īut there’s also stiff opposition to the measures from the industries that would be affected. ![]()
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