NYPIRG

06/02/2026

Yesterday we rallied at City Hall in Manhattan for Heat Pumps 4 All! Thank you to our City Council champions for joining us and the entire coalition of environmental, housing, and labor groups behind the movement - Let’s bring home $10 million in the final NYC budget to get heat pumps to homeowners 💪💰☀️

06/02/2026

📢 Hey New York voters: Get ready for the June 2026 primary election (Tuesday, June 23rd primary Election Day)! New York State holds closed primary elections, so voters must be registered to a party having a primary in order to vote.

🗳️ Check your voter registration status: https://voterlookup.elections.ny.gov/

And check out these important dates and deadlines for New York's June primary election, and this voter registration info, including online voter registration:

🗳️ New York State: https://nyovr.elections.ny.gov/

🗳️ New York City: https://e-register.vote.nyc/

06/02/2026

05/29/2026

Clean heating AND cooling for lower bills all year long?! Yes, please! Join us and Councilmember on Monday at the Jacob Wrey Mould fountain in City Hall Park to win Heat Pumps For All 💸🌬️☀️

05/29/2026

♻️ Watch NYPIRG Senior Policy Advisor Blair Horner discuss the push to tackle New York's solid waste crisis and increase recycling in the state with the .

Blair Horner discusses Capital Tonight.

05/28/2026

NYC, have you voted in the People’s Money yet?! Now’s your chance to help decide on how 4 million dollars of the city’s budget will be spent 💰💸🏙️ use the link in our bio to vote on which community projects will be funded in your borough!

05/28/2026

📰 NYPIRG in the news: Could this year's state budget blues prompt the N.Y. Legislature to act?

"[Gov. Kathy Hochul] says I want to do the budget 'til I get my non-budget items. She gets paid while that happens. The Legislature doesn't, so she just grinds them down. The courts have ruled that the executive controls the budget process in a way that really, there's no checks and balances in the New York state Constitution for the budget, so the governor is using all the tools she has to crunch the Legislature."

- NYPIRG Senior Policy Advisor Blair Horner

The issue, which has been articulated over and over again, is that the governor in New York state holds much of the power in budget negotiations.

05/27/2026

🔊 Listen to NYPIRG Senior Policy Advisor Blair Horner on WAMC Northeast Public Radio: Summer fun and recycling

"When one examines which beverage containers are returned or which are dumped, there is really no rhyme or reason. For example, the next time you're looking at soft drink beverages, 'Mountain Dew' is likely recycled, while 'Brisk Iced Tea' is not. Both are in identical plastic bottles and both are made by PepsiCo, but their disposal is handled differently. But why? The answer is that it's a quirk of New York law." ♻️

Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer. Bar-B-Qs, picnics, vacationing, Americans will want to be outdoors. And at events large and small, in parks or backyards, Americans bring with them the foods and beverages that are easiest to transport.

05/26/2026

♻️ This edition of NYPIRG Senior Policy Advisor Blair Horner's Capitol Perspective blog: Summer Fun and Recycling

"Identical containers being treated differently. It might be humorous, but it contributes to New York's solid waste crisis. Right now, the number one place that residential trash goes to is a landfill; number two is export for disposal; number three is burning; and the last is to be recycled. To make matters worse, the state's residential recycling rate has been dropping over the past decade. So you pay for more landfilling and burning."

Read more: https://www.nypirg.org/capitolperspective/summer-fun-and-recycling/

05/20/2026

📢 Hey NYC: Voting for is now open! All New Yorkers age 11 and up, regardless of immigration status, can decide how to spend $4 MILLION of the city's budget on projects in their borough to address community needs.

🗳️ VOTE TODAY: https://cec.blueberrypop.io/?partner=NYPIRG