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Cuomo guts key labor provisions in last-minute changes to New York’s landmark climate bill

Justine Calma
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“The equity components are the pieces that appear to have been weakened the most."

“Sometimes as happens in these battles under cover of night, things get slipped in through the cracks that are not what we had wanted to see,” said Adrien Salazar, a campaign strategist at progressive think tank Demos and a 2019 Grist Fixer. Demos has been instrumental in shaping both the Climate and Community Protection Act and the Green New Deal.

“The equity components are the pieces that appear to have been weakened the most,” Salazar said. “We’re very concerned about that.”

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