ALBANYThe
Business Council has urged the state to modify its proposed acid rain control
regulations, saying they would significantly affect the supply and cost of
electric power while offering limited benefits to affected ecosystems.
The Council expressed
these concerns in comments it submitted to the state Department of Environmental
Conservation (DEC) in response to the department's proposed acid deposition
reduction program (ADRP)
After
more than three years of consistent growth, The Business Council's
workers' compensation trust for manufacturers shows no sign
of slowing.
By
May 2002, the trust was reporting some $15 million in annual
premiums, with nearly 500 employers as members, said Bob Crandall,
The Council's director of member services who oversees the
trust
ALBANY - Five of New York's top business leaders have been elected to the
board of directors of The Business Council of New York State.
The new directors are:
Philip C. Ackerman, chairman of the board of National Fuel Gas
Company of Buffalo. He joined the company in 1968 as an attorney, and progressed
through staff and management positions
More
than 575 leaders from New York State businesses, state government,
and local chambers of commerce attended The Business Council's
annual State Chamber Dinner May 13 in Albany.
New
York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer was the keynote
speaker at the dinner, which The Council, as New York's statewide
chamber, conducts each year to honor the state's local and
regional chambers of commerce
The
new state budget is expected to create several new research
and technology programs.
One
budget bill (S.6259-B/A.9761-B) includes provisions that would:
Enact
Gen*NY*sis, the Senate Majority's initiative designed
to foster collaborative high-tech research and development
in biotechnology among academic, university, and industry
research labs
Lawmakers
have extended indefinitely the state's investment tax credit
(ITC) for the securities industry. This has been a top Business
Council priority.
New
York's powerful ITC has encouraged many businesses to invest
in New York State
Legislative
leaders' announced "framework" for agreement on a 2002-03
state budget preserves tax cuts that were passed in previous
years that are due to take effect in the current fiscal year.
Preserving
these tax cuts-which have an estimated value of $300 million-has
been a top Council priority since the budget debate began
in earnest in January
New
York City depends on electricity generated at the Indian Point
Energy Center. Closing it without simultaneously increasing
New York's generating capacity elsewhere would do "irreversible
harm to efforts to restore the city's economy," Business Council
President Daniel B
New York
City depends on electricity generated at the Indian Point Energy Center.
Closing it without simultaneously increasing New York's generating capacity
elsewhere would do "irreversible harm to efforts to restore the city's
economy," Business Council President Daniel B
The new state
budget is expected to create several new research and technology programs.
One budget
bill (S.6259-B/A.9761-B) includes provisions that would:
Enact
Gen*NY*sis, the Senate Majority's initiative designed to foster collaborative
high-tech research and development in biotechnology among academic,
university, and industry research labs