New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says State Attorney Generals have taken over the role of Congress as a check on the excesses of the Trump Administration. Schneiderman spoke at a conference of attorneys general at the NYU law school’s Energy and Environment Impact Center. He says states will enforce federal environmental and other laws […]
A new Siena Poll finds President Donald Trump with the worst favorability rating among New Yorkers he’s ever had since becoming president: a negative 29 to 66 percent. Three-fourths of all New Yorkers now give the president a negative rating for job performance and 85 percent give him a negative rating on race relations. Half […]
Governor Cuomo has responded to President Trump’s pullout from the Paris Climate Accord by committing New York State to follow the agreement, and by launching a multi-state United States Climate Alliance together with California and Washington State. The Paris agreement laid out a framework for countries to phase out use of fossil fuels and adopt […]