With the legislative session scheduled to end this Thursday, Environmental Chairs State Senator Pete Harckham and Assemblymember Deborah Glick held a press conference on June 5 to urge passage of their recently rewritten Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act. The legislation would reduce packaging, including plastic packaging, by half over the next 12 years; Ban certain toxic chemicals from being used for packaging; and, Prohibit so-called chemical recycling from being counted as recycling. We hear from Senator Harckham; Assemblymember Glick; Adrienne Esposito of Citizens Campaign for the Environment; Judith Enck of Beyond Plastics; and Bobbi Wilding, Clean and Healthy New York. Also, In the last two weeks, the arrival of buses of asylum seekers from New York City to the Capital Region has been a major news story. Sarah Rogerson is the director of the Edward P Swyer justice center at Albany Law School and the faculty director of the immigration law clinic. She spoke with WOOC's Moses Nagel about the laws at play and why this is happening now.

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